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Published material from The Law Easy that cites Section 223.
About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Contract Law II has six units, from indemnity to how these rules work for governments and consumers. These contracts arise daily: handing car keys to a valet, pledging gold for a loan, buying a phone, starting a business with a friend. Conn…
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Court of Common Pleas · 1827
In Adamson v. Jarvis, the Court of Common Pleas (Chief Justice Best, 1827) held that an auctioneer who honestly sold goods at another person's request, and was later made liable to the true owner, could recover his loss from the person who asked him to sell. The case matters because it shows that an indemnity may be implied by law from a request, even when no express promise to indemnify was made.
We show statutory text only after checking it word for word against the official source. Read Section 223 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 on India Code.
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