VidhiSangh

Indian Contract Act, 1872

Section 164: Bailor’s responsibility to bailee

Chapter IX — Of Bailment

164. The bailor is responsible to the bailee for any loss which the bailee may sustain by reason that the bailor was not entitled to make the bailment, or to receive back the goods, or to give directions respecting them.

Source: official text of the Indian Contract Act, 1872.