धारा 36

Section 36 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, deals with agreements contingent upon an impossible event. It states: "Contingent agreements to do or not to do anything, if an impossible event happens, are void, whether the impossibility of the event is known or not to the parties to the agreement at the time when it is made." This implies that if an agreement is contingent upon an impossible event, the agreement is void, regardless of whether the parties knew about the impossibility of the event at the time of making the agreement. The section further explains that if the impossibility of the event is known to the parties, the agreement is void ab initio. The Indian courts have interpreted this section to mean that agreements contingent upon impossible events are unenforceable.