Act Number: 4

Act Name: The Transfer of Property Act, 1882

Year: 1882

Enactment Date: 1882-02-17

Long Title: An Act to amend the law relating to the Transfer of Property by act of Parties.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 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 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.
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