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Section 50 TPA — Rent bona fide paid to holder under defective title

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882 · Official PDF page 18

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50. Rent bona fide paid to holder under defective title. —No person shall be chargeable with any rents or profits of any immoveable property, which he has in good faith paid or delivered to any person of whom he in good faith held such property, notwithstanding it may afterwards appear that the person to whom such payment or delivery was made had no right to receive such rents or profits.

Illustration A lets a field to B at a r ent of Rs. 50, and then transfers the field to C. B, having no notice of the transfer, in good faith pays the rent to A. B is not chargeable with the rent so paid.

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