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Section 47: Time and place for performance of promise

The Indian Contract Act, 1872Central Act · Act 9 of 1872

When a promise is to be performed on a certain day, and the promisor has undertaken to perform it without application by the promisee, the promisor may perform it at any time during the usual hours of business on such day and at the place at which the promise ought to be performed.

Illustration

A promises to deliver goods at B's warehouse on the first January. On that day A brings the goods to B's warehouse, but after the usual hour for closing it, and they are not received. A has not performed his promise.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Indian Contract Act, 1872
Section47
Marginal noteTime and place for performance of promise
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

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