Transfer of Property Act Section 50 — Rent bona fide paid to holder under defective title
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
General
Summary
If you pay rent or deliver the profits of a property in good faith to the person you believe is the rightful owner, you cannot be forced to pay that amount again to someone else, even if it later turns out that the person you paid had no legal right to receive it. This protection applies as long as you were acting honestly and without knowledge of any defect in that person's title. For example, if you rent a field from someone and pay them rent, and later it is discovered that they had already sold the property to another person, you will not be held liable for the rent you already paid in good faith.
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.