24.Agreements void, if consideration s and objects unlawful in part .—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 yea r. The agreement is void, the object of A ’s promise, and the consideration for B ’s promise, being in part unlawful.