Section 58Chapter IV
Alternative promise, one branch being illegal
OF THE PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS
In the case of an alternative promise, one branch of which is legal and the other illegal, the legal branch alone can be enforced. A and B agree that A shall pay B 1,000 Taka for which B shall afterwards deliver to A either rice or smuggled opium. This is a valid contract to deliver rice, and a void agreement as to the opium.