Section 233
Right of person dealing with agent personally liable
Chapter 11: Agency
In cases where the agent is personally liable, a person dealing with him may hold either him or his principal, or both of them, liable.
Illustration.
A enters into a contract with B to sell him 100 bales of cotton, and afterwards discovers that B was acting as agent for C. A may sue either B or C, or both, for the price of the cotton.
The Indian Contract Act, 1872 (Act No. 9 of 1872). From the updated text on India Code, with later amendments. Being checked against the official copy; amendment notes are not shown yet.
Related sections
- 230Agent cannot personally enforce, nor be bound by, contracts on behalf of principal
- 231Rights of parties to a contract made by agent not disclosed
- 232Performance of contract with agent supposed to be principal
- 234Consequence of inducing agent or principal to act on belief that principal or agent will be held exclusively liable
- 235Liability of pretended agent
- 236Person falsely contracting as agent not entitled to performance