Section 50
Rent bona fide paid to holder under defective title.
The Transfer of Property Act, 1882
About this Act
An Act to amend the law relating to the Transfer of Property by act of Parties.
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 rent 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.
Illustration
A lets a field to B at a rent 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.