Mera Samvidhaan All of Indian Contract Act, 1872

Chapter II · Of Contracts, Voidable Contracts and Void Agreements

24Agreements void, if considerations and objects unlawful in part.

Section 24 · Chapter II · Void agreements · page 17 of the Act

If any part of a single consideration for one or more objects, or any one or any part of any one of several considerations for a single object, is unlawful, the agreement is void.

Illustration

A promises to superintend, on behalf of B, a legal manufacture of indigo, and an illegal traffic in other articles. B promises to pay to A a salary of 10,000 rupees a year. The agreement is void, the object of A’s promise, and the consideration for B’s promise, being in part unlawful.

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