Judicial Metrics • Statistical Report

Most Cited Provisions

Statute: Indian Contract Act, 1872 (indian-contract-act-1872)

RankSectionTitleSC CitationsActions
#1Section 147Definitions of express and implied authority319
#2Section 140Consideration may be in the form of a promise318
#3Section 2Interpretation-clause318
#4Section 40Guiding principle in determining what is meant by impossible313
#5Section 30Agreements in restraint of trade, exception313
#6Section 53Compensation for loss or damage to be given313
#7Section 27Agreement in restraint of legal proceeding, void312
#8Section 141Implied Agency309
#9Section 38Effect of becoming impossible or unlawful of a contingent agreement308
#10Section 123When Event on Which Contract is Contingent Happens306
#11Section 35Application of given consideration to another purpose302
#12Section 122Enforcement of Contingent Contracts296
#13Section 76On rescission, any gain from contract to be restored291
#14Section 125Wagering Contracts287
#15Section 54Of the manner of determining the amount of compensation285
#16Section 1Short title and commencement281
#17Section 58Alternative promise, one branch being illegal278
#18Section 95Contracts to do things which are impossible272
#19Section 149Agent's authority in an emergency271
#20Section 82Effect of novation, rescission, and alteration of contract269
#21Section 68Acceptance by performing, or offering to perform, conditions precedent268
#22Section 55When a contract is broken, the party who suffers by the breach is entitled to receive267
#23Section 64Set-off of damages against sum payable under voidable contract267
#24Section 18Misrepresentation defined266
#25Section 148Extension of implied authority264
#26Section 136Consideration must move at the desire of the promisor263
#27Section 129Novation of Contingent Contracts261
#28Section 59Application of payment where debt to be discharged is not indicated255
#29Section 130Discharge of Contingent Contracts253
#30Section 88Liability of two persons, primarily liable to one person252