Section 36 any agreement contingent on an impossible event is void.

This holds true regardless of whether the parties

involved were aware of the impossibility of the event at the time of making the agreement.

Section 37 mandates that all parties involved in a contract must fulfill their promises, or at least offer to do so, unless the Act
or any other law excuses or dispenses with such performance. If a promisor dies before fulfilling their promise, their
representatives are bound by the promise, unless the contract indicates otherwise.

Section 38 stipulates that if a promisor offers to perform their promise and the promisee does not accept it, the promisor is
not liable for non-performance and retains their rights under the contract. The offer must be unconditional, made at an
appropriate time and place, and the promisee should have a reasonable opportunity to verify that the promisor can fulfill their
promise. If the offer involves delivering an item, the promisee should be able to confirm that the item is as promised. An
offer made to one of several joint promisees is considered an offer to all.

Section 39 if a party refuses or is unable to perform their promise entirely, the other party (promisee) has the right to
terminate the contract. However, if the promisee has indicated, through words or actions, their acceptance of the contract’s
continuation, they cannot end it.

Section 40, if it’s clear from the contract that the promisor was intended to perform the promise, then the promisor must do
so. However, in other cases, the promisor or their representatives can hire a competent person to fulfill the promise.

Section 41, explains that if a promisee accepts the fulfillment of a promise from a third party, they cannot later enforce the
promise against the original promisor.

Section 42 explains that when a joint promise is made by two or more people, all of them are required to fulfill the promise
during their lifetime. If any of them passes away, the responsibility falls on the deceased’s representative along with the
surviving promisors. After the death of the last survivor, the representatives of all must fulfill the promise, unless the contract
indicates otherwise.

Section 43: If multiple people make a joint promise, any one of them can be compelled to perform the whole promise. Each
promisor can compel others to contribute equally to the performance of the promise.

Section 44: Releasing one joint promisor does not discharge the other joint promisors from their responsibilities.

Section 45: When a promise is made to multiple persons jointly, the right to claim performance rests with them during their
joint lives and, after death, with the representative of the deceased person jointly with the survivors.

Section 46: If no time for performance is specified, the promise must be performed within a reasonable time.

Section 47: If a promise is to be performed on a certain day, the promisor may perform it at any time during the usual
business hours on such day.

Section 48: If a promise is to be performed on a certain day, it is the duty of the promisee to apply for performance at a
proper place and within the usual hours of business.

Section 49: If no place is fixed for the performance of a promise, it is the duty of the promisor to apply to the promisee to
appoint a reasonable place for the performance of the promise.

Section 50: The performance of any promise may be made in any manner, or at any time which the promisee prescribes or
sanctions.

Section 51: In a contract of reciprocal promises, no promisor needs to perform his promise unless the promisee is ready and
willing to perform his reciprocal promise.

Section 52: Reciprocal promises must be performed in the order specified by the contract, or in the order required by the
nature of the transaction if not specified.

Section 53: If one party prevents the other from performing his promise, the contract becomes voidable at the option of the
party so prevented.

Section 54: If a contract consists of reciprocal promises, and one of them cannot be performed until the other has been
performed, and the promisor of the latter promise fails to perform it, such promisor cannot claim the performance of the
reciprocal promise.
Section 55:. If time is of the essence and a party fails to perform at or before the specified time, the contract becomes
voidable at the option of the promisee. If time is not of the essence, the contract does not become voidable, but the promisee
is entitled to compensation for any loss due to the delay. If the promisee accepts performance at a time other than that agreed
upon, they cannot claim compensation for any loss due to the delay unless they give notice of their intention to do so at the
time of acceptance.

Section 56: It states that an agreement to perform an act that is impossible in itself is void. If a contract becomes impossible
or unlawful to perform due to some unforeseen event after it is made, it becomes void. If a person has promised to perform
an act that they knew or could have known with reasonable diligence to be impossible or unlawful, they must compensate
the promisee for any loss sustained due to non-performance of the promise.

Section 57: If persons reciprocally promise to do certain legal things and certain illegal things, the first set of promises is a
contract, but the second is a void agreement.

Section 58: In an alternative promise, if one branch is legal and the other illegal, only the legal branch can be enforced.

Section 59: If a debtor owes several distinct debts to one person and makes a payment to him, the payment must be applied
to the discharge of the debt indicated by the debtor.

Section 60: If the debtor does not indicate which debt the payment is to be applied to, the creditor may apply it at his
discretion to any lawful debt actually due and payable to him from the debtor.

Section 61: If neither party makes any appropriation, the payment shall be applied in discharge of the debts in order of time.

Section 62: If the parties to a contract agree to substitute a new contract for it, or to rescind or alter it, the original contract
need not be performed.

Section 63: Every promisee may dispense with or remit, wholly or in part, the performance of the promise made to him, or
may extend the time for such performance, or may accept instead of it any satisfaction which he thinks fit.

s.64 Rescission of Voidable Contract: If a contract is voidable and one party rescinds it, they must return any benefits
received under the contract.

s.65 Advantage under Void Agreement: If an agreement is void, anyone who gained an advantage must restore it or
compensate the other party.

s.66 Communicating Rescission of Voidable Contract: The rescission of a voidable contract can be communicated or
revoked in the same way as a proposal.

s.67 Neglect of Promisee: If a promisee doesn’t provide reasonable facilities for the promisor to perform, the promisor is
excused from non-performance.

s.68 Claim for Necessaries: If a person incapable of contracting is supplied with necessaries, the supplier is entitled to
reimbursement from the incapable person’s property.

s.69 Reimbursement of Payment: A person who pays money that another is legally bound to pay is entitled to
reimbursement.

s.70 Benefit of Non-Gratuitous Act: If a person does something for another not intending to do so gratuitously, and the
other person benefits, they must compensate the former.

s.71 Finder of Goods: A person who finds goods belonging to another and takes them into custody has the same
responsibility as a bailee.

s.72 Payment by Mistake or Coercion: A person who receives money or anything by mistake or under coercion must repay
or return it.

s.73 Compensation for Breach of Contract When a contract has been broken, the party who suffers from the breach is
entitled to receive compensation from the party who broke the contract. This compensation covers any loss or damage that
naturally arose from the breach or was known to likely result from the breach when the contract was made. Compensation is
not given for any remote and indirect loss or damage sustained due to the breach. If an obligation similar to a contract has
not been discharged, the injured party is entitled to receive the same compensation from the defaulting party as if they had
contracted to discharge it and had broken the contract. When estimating the loss or damage from a breach of contract, the
means available to remedy the inconvenience caused by the non-performance of the contract must be considered.

s.74 Penalty for Breach of Contract: If a contract is broken and a penalty is stipulated, the injured party is entitled to
reasonable compensation not exceeding the penalty.

S.75 Rescinding Contract: A person who rightfully rescinds a contract is entitled to compensation for any damage
sustained due to non-fulfilment of the contract.

124. Contract of Indemnity: This is a contract where one party promises to protect the other from any losses caused by the
promisor’s conduct or the conduct of any other person.

125. Rights of Indemnity-Holder When Sued: The promisee in a contract of indemnity can recover all damages, costs, and
sums paid under any compromise of any suit related to the indemnity from the promisor.

126. Contract of Guarantee: This is a contract to perform the promise or discharge the liability of a third person in case of
his default. The person who gives the guarantee is the surety, the person whose default the guarantee is given is the principal
debtor, and the person to whom the guarantee is given is the creditor.

127. Consideration for Guarantee: Any act done or promise made for the benefit of the principal debtor can be a sufficient
consideration for the surety to give the guarantee.

128. Surety’s Liability: The liability of the surety is co-extensive with that of the principal debtor unless the contract
provides otherwise.

129. Continuing Guarantee: A guarantee that extends to a series of transactions.

130. Revocation of Continuing Guarantee: A continuing guarantee can be revoked by the surety for future transactions by
giving notice to the creditor.

131. Revocation of Continuing Guarantee by Surety’s Death: The death of the surety revokes a continuing guarantee for
future transactions unless there is a contract stating otherwise.

132. Liability of Two Persons, Primarily Liable, Not Affected by Arrangement Between Them: The liability of two
persons who contract with a third person to undertake a certain liability is not affected by an arrangement between them that
one shall be liable only on the other’s default.

133. Discharge of Surety by Variance in Terms of Contract: Any variance in the terms of the contract between the
principal debtor and the creditor, made without the surety’s

Section 134: The surety is released if the creditor forgives the debt of the main debtor or does anything that legally lets the
debtor off the hook.

Section 135: If the creditor gives the debtor more time to pay, agrees not to sue them, or makes a deal with them on the debt
(without the surety's approval), the surety is usually released.

Section 136: An agreement to give the debtor more time made with someone else (not the debtor) doesn't release the surety.

Section 137: Just because the creditor waits to sue the debtor doesn't release the surety (unless there's a specific agreement
otherwise).

Section 138: Releasing one co-surety (someone else who guaranteed the debt) doesn't release the others. They're still on the
hook, and the released surety is still responsible to the other co-sureties for their share.

Section 139: If the creditor does something that hurts the surety's chance of getting their money back from the debtor (like
giving up valuable collateral without permission), the surety might be released.

Section 140: Once the surety pays what they owe, they have the same rights as the original creditor to go after the debtor for
the money they paid.
Section 141: The surety can benefit from any collateral the creditor held for the debt (like a car title). This means they can
potentially sell the collateral to recoup their money.

Section 142: If the creditor lied or hid important information to get someone to be a surety, the guarantee is not enforceable.

Section 143: Similarly, if the creditor stayed silent about important things the surety should know, the guarantee might be
invalid.

Section 144: If someone agrees to be a surety on condition that another person also guarantees the debt, but that other person
doesn't, the first surety's guarantee might not be valid.

Section 146: Generally, co-sureties share the debt equally, regardless of whether they guaranteed the same amount or not.

Section 147: If co-sureties guaranteed different amounts, they each pay up to their guaranteed amount, and then any
remaining debt is split equally.

148. Bailment, Bailor, and Bailee: Bailment is when one person (the bailor) gives goods to another person (the bailee) for a
specific purpose. Once the purpose is fulfilled, the goods should be returned or disposed of as per the bailor’s instructions. If
someone already has someone else’s goods and agrees to hold them as a bailee, they become the bailee and the owner
becomes the bailor.

149. Delivery to Bailee: The bailee can receive the goods by any action that results in them or someone they authorize
having possession of the goods.

150. Bailor’s Duty: The bailor must inform the bailee about any faults in the goods that could interfere with their use or
pose extraordinary risks. If the bailor doesn’t disclose such faults, they’re responsible for any damage that occurs as a result.

151.Care by Bailee: The bailee must take care of the bailed goods as if they were their own.

152. Bailee’s Liability: Unless there’s a special contract, the bailee isn’t responsible for loss, destruction, or deterioration of
the bailed goods, provided they’ve taken care of them as described in section 151.

153. Termination of Bailment: If the bailee does something with the bailed goods that goes against the conditions of the
bailment, the bailor can choose to end the bailment.

154. Unauthorized Use of Bailed Goods: If the bailee uses the bailed goods in a way that’s not according to the conditions
of the bailment, they must compensate the bailor for any damage that occurs during such use.

155. Mixing of Goods with Bailor’s Consent: If the bailee mixes the bailor’s goods with their own goods with the bailor’s
consent, both parties have an interest in the resulting mixture proportional to their respective shares.

156. Mixing without Bailor’s Consent (Goods Can Be Separated): If the bailee mixes the bailor’s goods with their own
without the bailor’s consent, and the goods can be separated, the property in the goods remains with the respective parties.
However, the bailee must bear the cost of separation and any damage from the mixture.

157. Mixing without Bailor’s Consent (Goods Cannot Be Separated): If the bailee mixes the bailor’s goods with their
own without the bailor’s consent, and the goods can’t be separated, the bailor is entitled to compensation from the bailee for
the loss of the goods.

158. Repayment of Necessary Expenses: If the conditions of the bailment require the bailee to keep, carry, or do work on
the goods without receiving payment, the bailor must repay the bailee for any necessary expenses incurred for the bailment.

159. Return of Gratuitously Lent Goods: The lender of a thing for use can require its return at any time if the loan was
free, even if it was lent for a specific time or purpose. However, if the borrower would suffer a loss exceeding the benefit
they received from the loan if the thing was returned before the agreed time, the lender must compensate the borrower for the
amount by which the loss exceeds the benefit.

160. Return of Bailed Goods: The bailee must return the bailed goods without demand as soon as the time for which they
were bailed has expired, or the purpose for which they were bailed has been accomplished.
161. Bailee’s Responsibility for Non-Return: If the bailee doesn’t return, deliver, or tender the goods at the proper time
due to their own fault, they’re responsible to the bailor for any loss, destruction, or deterioration of the goods from that time.

162. Termination of Gratuitous Bailment by Death: A gratuitous bailment ends if either the bailor or the bailee dies.

163. Bailor’s Entitlement to Increase or Profit: Unless there’s a contract stating otherwise, the bailee must deliver to the
bailor any increase or profit that has come from the bailed goods.

164. Bailor’s Responsibility to Bailee: The bailor is responsible to the bailee for any loss the bailee may sustain because the
bailor wasn’t entitled to make the bailment, receive back the goods, or give directions about them.

165. Bailment by Several Joint Owners: If several joint owners of goods bail them, the bailee can return them to one joint
owner without the consent of all unless there’s an agreement stating otherwise.

166. Bailee’s Non-Responsibility on Re-Delivery to Bailor Without Title: If the bailor doesn’t have title to the goods and
the bailee, in good faith, delivers them back to the bailor, the bailee isn’t responsible to the owner for such delivery.

167. Right of Third Person Claiming Bailed Goods: If someone other than the bailor claims bailed goods, they can apply
to the court to stop the delivery of the goods to the bailor and to decide who owns the goods.

168. Right of Finder of Goods: The finder of goods can’t sue the owner for compensation for voluntarily preserving the
goods and finding the owner. However, they can keep the goods until they receive such compensation. If the owner has
offered a specific reward for the return of lost goods, the finder can sue for the reward and keep the goods until they receive
it.

Section 169: If you find something that’s usually sold and can’t find the owner or they won’t pay your reasonable charges,
you can sell it. This applies if the item is at risk of perishing or losing most of its value, or if your charges are two-thirds of
its value.

Section 170: If you’ve done work on someone’s goods (you’re the bailee), you can keep the goods until you’re paid for your
work, unless there’s a contract saying otherwise.

Section 171: Bankers, factors, wharfingers, High Court attorneys, and policy-brokers can keep any goods given to them as
security for a general balance of account, unless there’s a contract saying otherwise.

Section 172: A “pledge” is when goods are given as security for a debt or promise. The person giving the goods is the
“pawnor” and the person receiving them is the “pawnee”.

Section 173: The pawnee can keep the pledged goods not only for payment of the debt or performance of the promise, but
also for the interest of the debt and all necessary expenses for the possession or preservation of the goods.

Section 174: The pawnee can’t keep the goods for any debt or promise other than the one they were pledged for, unless
there’s a contract saying otherwise. This contract is presumed for any subsequent advances made by the pawnee.

Section 175: The pawnee can receive from the pawnor any extraordinary expenses incurred for the preservation of the
goods.

Section 176: If the pawnor defaults on the debt or promise, the pawnee can sue them and keep the goods as collateral, or sell
the goods after giving reasonable notice. If the sale proceeds are less than the debt, the pawnor still owes the balance. If the
proceeds are more, the pawnee must give the surplus to the pawnor.

Section 177: If the pawnor defaults on the debt or promise at the stipulated time, they can redeem the goods at any time
before they’re actually sold, but they must also pay any expenses from their default.

Sure, here are the simplified versions of the sections you provided:

Section 178: If a mercantile agent has goods or the title document to goods with the owner’s consent, any pledge they make
is valid as long as the pawnee acts in good faith and doesn’t know the pawnor isn’t allowed to pledge.

Section 178A: This section seems to be missing some text.

Section 179: If someone pledges goods they only partially own, the pledge is only valid up to their ownership portion.

Section 180: If a third party wrongfully deprives the bailee of the use or possession of the goods bailed, or injures them, the
bailee can use the same remedies as the owner could have if no bailment had been made.

Section 181: Any relief or compensation obtained from a suit against a third party for deprivation or injury of bailed goods
will be divided between the bailor and the bailee according to their respective interests.

Section 182: An “agent” is a person employed to do something for another person or to represent them in dealings with third
parties. The person for whom the act is done or who is represented is called the “principal”.

Section 183: Any person who is of legal age and of sound mind can employ an agent.

Section 184: Any person can become an agent, but a person who is not of legal age and of sound mind cannot become an
agent in a way that makes them responsible to their principal.

Section 185: No consideration is necessary to create an agency.

Section 186: The authority of an agent can be expressed or implied.

Section 187: Express authority is given by spoken or written words. Implied authority is inferred from the circumstances of
the case.

Section 188: An agent with authority to do an act has authority to do every lawful thing necessary to do that act.

Section 189: An agent has authority in an emergency to do all acts necessary to protect their principal from loss.

Section 190: An agent cannot lawfully employ another to perform acts which they have expressly or impliedly undertaken to
perform personally, unless a sub-agent may or must be employed by the ordinary custom of trade or the nature of the agency.

Section 191: A “sub-agent” is a person employed by and acting under the control of the original agent in the business of the
agency.

Section 192: If a sub-agent is properly appointed, the principal is represented by the sub-agent and is bound by and
responsible for their acts.

Section 193: If an agent appoints a sub-agent without authority to do so, the agent is responsible for the sub-agent’s acts to
both the principal and third parties.

Section 194: If an agent names another person to act for the principal in the business of the agency, that person is an agent of
the principal for the part of the business entrusted to them.

Section 195: In selecting an agent for their principal, an agent is bound to exercise the same amount of discretion as a man of
ordinary prudence would exercise in his own case.

Section 196: If acts are done by one person on behalf of another without their knowledge or authority, they may choose to
ratify or disown such acts.

Section 197: Ratification can be expressed or implied in the conduct of the person on whose behalf the acts are done.

Section 198: No valid ratification can be made by a person whose knowledge of the facts of the case is materially defective.

Section 199: A person ratifying any unauthorized act done on their behalf ratifies the whole of the transaction of which such
act formed a part.

Section 200: An act done by one person on behalf of another without their authority cannot, by ratification, have the effect
of subjecting a third person to damages or of terminating any right or interest of a third person.
Section 201: An agency is terminated by the principal revoking their authority; or by the agent renouncing the business of
the agency; or by the business of the agency being completed; or by either the principal or agent dying or becoming of
unsound mind; or by the principal being adjudicated an insolvent.

Section 203: A principal can cancel the agent’s power at any time before the agent has acted in a way that legally binds the
principal.

Section 204: If the agent has already partially exercised their authority, the principal cannot revoke it regarding those
actions.

Section 205: If there’s a contract stating that the agency should continue for a certain period, and it’s ended early without a
good reason, the party ending it must compensate the other.

Section 206: Reasonable notice must be given when ending an agency. If not, the party ending it must compensate the other
for any damage caused.

Section 207: The ending of an agency can be expressed directly or implied by the principal’s or agent’s actions.

Section 208: The agent’s authority ends when they know about it. For third parties, it ends when they know about it.

Section 209: If the agency ends because the principal dies or becomes mentally unsound, the agent must take reasonable
steps to protect the principal’s interests.

Section 210: The end of an agent’s authority also ends the authority of any sub-agents they appointed.

Section 211: An agent must follow the principal’s instructions or the usual business practices. They must act with the skill
typically found in similar businesses and always act diligently. They must compensate the principal for any direct loss caused
by their negligence, lack of skill, or misconduct.

Section 212: An agent must act with the skill typically found in similar businesses and always act diligently. They must
compensate the principal for any direct loss caused by their negligence, lack of skill, or misconduct.

Section 213: An agent must provide proper accounts to the principal when asked.

Section 214: An agent must communicate with the principal in difficult situations and try to get instructions.

Section 215: If an agent acts in the agency on their own account without the principal’s consent, the principal can reject the
transaction if the agent has dishonestly hidden any important facts or if the agent’s actions have been disadvantageous to the
principal.

Section 216: If an agent, without the principal’s knowledge, acts in the agency on their own account instead of on behalf of
the principal, the principal can claim any benefit that may have resulted from the transaction.

Section 217: An agent can keep, out of any sums received on account of the principal in the agency, all money due to them
in respect of advances made or expenses properly incurred by them in conducting such business, and also such remuneration
as may be payable to them for acting as agent.

Section 218: Subject to such deductions, the agent must pay to the principal all sums received on his account.

Section 219: In the absence of any special contract, payment for the performance of any act is not due to the agent until the
completion of such act; but an agent may detain moneys received by him on account of goods sold, although the whole of
the goods consigned to him for sale may not have been sold, or although the sale may not be actually complete.

Section 220: An agent who is guilty of misconduct in the business of the agency, is not entitled to any remuneration in
respect of that part of the business which he has misconducted.

Section 221: In the absence of any contract to the contrary, an agent is entitled to retain goods, papers and other property,
whether movable or immovable of the principal received by him, until the amount due to himself for commission,
disbursements and services in respect of the same has been paid or accounted for to him.

Section 222: The employer of an agent is bound to indemnify him against the consequences of all lawful acts done by such
agent in exercise of the authority conferred upon him.

Section 223: Where one person employs another to do an act, and the agent does the act in good faith, the employer is liable
to indemnify the agent against the consequences of that act, though it cause an injury to the rights of third persons.

Section 224: Where one person employs another to do an act which is criminal, the employer is not liable to the agent, either
upon an express or an implied promise, to indemnify him against the consequences of that Act.
Section 225: The principal must make compensation to his agent in respect of injury caused to such agent by the principal’s
neglect or want of skill.

Section 226: Contracts entered into through an agent, and obligations arising from acts done by an agent, may be enforced in
the same manner, and will have the same legal consequences, as if the contracts had been entered into and the acts done by
the principal in person.

Section 227: When an agent does more than he is authorized to do, and when the part of what he does, which is within his
authority, can be separated from the part which is beyond his authority, so much only of what he does as is within his
authority is binding as between him and his principal.

Section 228: Where an agent does more than he is authorized to do, and what he does beyond the scope of his authority
cannot be separated from what is within it, the principal is not bound to recognize the transaction.

Section 229: Any notice given to or information obtained by the agent, provided it be given or obtained in the course of the
business transacted by him for the principal, shall, as between the principal and third parties, have the same legal
consequences as if it had been given to or obtained by the principal.

Section 230: In the absence of any contract to that effect, an agent cannot personally enforce contracts entered into by him
on behalf of his principal, nor is he personally bound by them.

Section 231: If an agent makes a contract with a person who neither knows, nor has reason to suspect, that he is an agent, his
principal may require the performance of the contract; but the other contracting party has, as against the principal, the same
rights as he would have had as against the agent if the agent had been principal.

Section 232: Where one man makes a contract with another, neither knowing nor having reasonable ground to suspect that
the other is an agent, the principal, if he requires the performance of the contract, can only obtain such performance subject
to the rights and obligations subsisting between the agent and the other party to the contract.

Section 233: In cases where the agent is personally liable, a person dealing with him may hold either him or his principal, or
both of them, liable.

Section 234: When a person who has made a contract with an agent induces the agent to act upon the belief that the principal
only will be held liable, or induces the principal to act upon the belief that the agent only will be held liable, he cannot
afterwards hold liable the agent or principal respectively

Section 235 (Liability of Pretended Agent): If someone falsely claims to be an agent for another person and convinces a
third party to deal with them as such, they are responsible for compensating the third party for any loss or damage if their
supposed employer doesn’t approve their actions.

Section 236 (Person Falsely Contracting as Agent): If someone enters into a contract pretending to be an agent but is
actually acting on their own behalf, they can’t demand the contract be fulfilled.

Section 237 (Liability of Principal Inducing Belief in Unauthorized Acts): If an agent acts without authority and incurs
obligations on behalf of the principal, the principal is bound by these actions if they led the third party to believe the agent
was authorized to act as such.

Section 238 (Effect of Misrepresentation or Fraud by Agent): If an agent misrepresents or commits fraud while
conducting business for their principal, it affects the agreements made by the agent as if the principal had committed the
misrepresentation or fraud. However, if the agent commits misrepresentation or fraud outside their authority, it doesn’t affect
the principal.