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Bare Acts
Indian Contract Act, 1872
Section 50-74
Section 59- Application of payment where debt to be discharged is indicated

Where a debtor, owing several distinct debts to one person, makes a payment to him, either with express intimation, or under circumstances implying that the payment is to be applied to the discharge of some particular debt, the payment, if accepted, must be applied accordingly.

Illustrations

(a) A owes B, among other debts 1,000 rupees upon a promissory note which falls due on the' first June. He owes B no other debt of that amount. On the first June A pays to B 1,000 rupees. The payment is to be applied to the discharge of the promissory note.

(b) A owes to B, among other debts, the sum of 567 rupees. B writes to A and demands payment' of this sum A sends to B 567 rupees. This payment is to be applied to the discharge of the debt of which B had demanded payment.

     
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