Indian Contract Act Section 69 — Reimbursement of person paying money due by another, in payment of which he is interested

CHAPTER V OF CERTAIN RELATIONS RESEMBLING THOSE CREATED BY CONTRACT

Commercial / Corporate

Summary

A person who has a direct interest in seeing a particular payment made, where someone else is legally required to make that payment, and who goes ahead and pays it themselves, has the right to get that money back from the person who was legally obliged to pay.

Official Text

A person who is interested in the payment of money which another is bound by law to pay, and who therefore pays it, is entitled to be reimbursed by the other. Illustration