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Contracts Act · s 59
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Contracts Act · s 59
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In the case of an alternative promise, one branch of which is legal and the other illegal, the legal branch alone can be enforced.
Illustration
A and B agree that A shall pay B $1,000 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.
Appropriation of payments