VidhiSangh

Indian Contract Act, 1872

Section 42: Devolution of joint liabilities

Chapter IV — Of the Performance of Contracts

42. When two or more persons have made a joint promise, then, unless a contrary intention appears by the contract, all such persons, during their joint lives, and, after the death of any of them, his representative jointly with the survivor or survivors, and, after the death of the last survivor, the representatives of all jointly, must fulfil the promise.

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