Indian Contract Act, 1872
70. Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous act.—
Where a person lawfully does anything for another person, or delivers
duty of the
vendor to compensate the Vendee for his non gratuitous
act. Reliance was placed on a decision in the case of Shri
Balubhai ... Contract Act will also not apply as it is for
non- gratuitous act and not for void documents. The
judgement in the case of Balubhai
telephone connection but he had enjoyed the benefit of
nongratuitous act of the plaintiff by allowing the installation of
telephone connection in his shop ... Section casts a duty on the person
enjoying the benefit of nongratuitous act of other person to
compensate the said person in respect
Jit Ram Shiv Kumar And Ors. Etc vs State Of Haryana And Anr. Etc on
plaintiff under some mistake. In
any case, it was not a payment gratuitously made. Doctrine
of undue enrichment would squarely apply in the present case ... under:-
"70. Obligation of person enjoying benefit of
non-gratuitous act.- Where a person lawfully does anything
for another person, or delivers anything
Act, 1872 [“ Contract Act ”] would be permissible.
Section 70 of the Contract Act reads as under:
“70. Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-
gratuitous
agreement in writing sufficient to satisfy the requirements of an Act of Parliament though it is only verified by the signature ... Section 70 reads as follows:
Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous act.- Where a person lawfully does anything for another person, or delivers
Act which runs
thus :
70. Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non-gratuitous
act.--
Where a person lawfully does anything for another person, or
delivers
contentions, the first being that, under Section 70 of the Indian Contract Act, defendant No. 2 is personally liable to repay to the plaintiff ... paid by a person enjoying the benefit of a non-gratuitous act, but for the operation of the section certain conditions are prescribed. They
respondents.
25. Once the plea of gratuitous payment falls to the ground,
Section 70 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 will come into play.
Section ... reads as follows:
“70. Obligation of person enjoying benefit of non
gratuitous act. Where a person lawfully does anything for
another person, or delivers anything