Indian Contract Act, 1872 · Chapter X: Agency · Effect of agency on contracts with third persons
Section 236: Person falsely contracting as agent, not entitled to performance
In plain words
A person who made a contract as an agent cannot require its performance if they were really acting on their own account.
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Official text
A person with whom a contract has been entered into in the character of agent, is not entitled to require the performance of it, if he was in reality acting, not as agent, but on his own account.
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 15 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 236
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