Transfer of Property Act, 1882 · Chapter II: Of Transfers of Property by Act of Parties · Apportionment
Section 50: Rent bona fide paid to holder under defective title
In plain words
A tenant who in good faith pays rent to the person from whom they hold the property is not liable to pay again, even if that person later turns out not to have been entitled to it.
Example: A leases a field to B and then sells it to C. B, unaware of the sale, pays rent to A. B does not have to pay it again to C.
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Official text
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.
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 50
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