{"id":4392,"date":"2011-08-10T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Indian Contract Act, 1872<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>  <h2>45. Devolution of joint rights\u00a0<\/h2>  <p>\u00a0<\/p><p>When a person has made a promise to two or more persons jointly, then unless contrary intention appears from the"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T10:41:00","slug":"ica-s45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/bare-acts\/contractact\/ica-s45.htm","title":{"rendered":"Section 45 -The Indian Contract Act, 1872"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Indian Contract Act, 1872<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>45. Devolution of joint rights\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When a person has made a promise to two or more persons jointly, then unless contrary intention appears from the contract, the right to claim performance rests, as between him and them, with them during their joint lives, and, after the death of any one of them, with the representative of such deceased person jointly with the survivor or survivors, and, after the death of the last survivor, with the representatives of all jointly.<b>1<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A, in consideration of 5,000 rupees lent to him by B and C, promises B and C jointly to repay them that sum with interest on a day specified. B dies. The right to claim performance rests with B\u2019s representative jointly with C during C\u2019s life, and after the death of C, with the representatives of B and C jointly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><b> 1. For an exception to section 45 in case of Government securities, see the Public Debt Act, 1944 (18 of 1944), section 8.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"ica-s44.htm\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"ica-s46.htm\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"contractact.htm\"><strong>The Indian Contract Act, 1872<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/\"><strong>Indian Laws &#8211; Bare Acts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>section<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"sidebar-page.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17928],"tags":[17544,17545,17329,17929,17930,14064,17330,17294,17546,17931],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contractact","tag-acts-of-india","tag-bare-acts-at-mynation-net","tag-bare-acts-of-india","tag-indian-contract-act","tag-indian-contract-act-1872","tag-indian-laws","tag-laws-2","tag-laws-of-india","tag-laws-of-india-at-mynation-net","tag-the-indian-contract-act-1872"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}