Section 36 of indian contract act
arpit mehta
(Querist) 28 August 2012
This query is : Resolved
can anyone tell me any case of section 36 of indian contract act which talks on contingent agreements to do or not to do anything, if an impossible event happens, are void, whether the impossibility of the event is known or not to the parties to the agreement at the time when it is made.
plz its urgent
Guest
(Expert) 28 August 2012
Please write the specific problem for solution instead of an academic query.
arpit mehta
(Querist) 28 August 2012
sir i want a case related to section 36 of indian contract act...
ajay sethi
(Expert) 28 August 2012
search at indian kanoon website for case laws
ajay sethi
(Expert) 28 August 2012
Section 36 : Agreement contingent on impossible event void
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Contingent agreements to do or not to do anything, if an impossible event happens, are void, whether the impossibility of the event is known or not to the parties to the agreement at the time when it is made.
b) A agrees to pay B 1,000 rupees if B will marry A's daughter C.C was dead at the time of the agreement. The agreement is void.
you dont need case law for this proposition
R.K Nanda
(Expert) 28 August 2012
Purely academic query.
Sankaranarayanan
(Expert) 28 August 2012
hope mr sethi given the contents of section 36 to you, it is the answer for your query, if need particular then give the correct details here
arpit mehta
(Querist) 28 August 2012
i am not getting any case in which is the section 36 is relied...nd judgment given on that section...plz give me the case mr sethi
Guest
(Expert) 28 August 2012
Mr. Mehta,
It would have been better if you could have asked for help from your own law class teacher, as tracks of such types of rare cases are kept by the academics only for teaching purposes.
The example quoted by Shri Sethi and the advice that "you dont need case law for this proposition" should have been quite sufficient for you to understand the implication of sec-36.
Shri Sethi has also given a reference of the site where you can trace the case law, if any. So, why don't you try for yourself to search the case from there, yourself.
V R SHROFF
(Expert) 16 March 2014
academic query, BY STUDENT
