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Home › Bare Acts › Indian Contract Act, 1872 › Section 190

Chapter X — Agency

Section 190 — When agent cannot delegate

Indian Contract Act, 1872 · Free to read

An agent cannot lawfully employ another to perform acts which he has expressly or impliedly undertaken to perform personally, unless by the ordinary custom of trade a sub-agent may, or, from the nature of the agency, a sub-agent must, be employed.

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