24. Agreements void, if consideration are objects unlawful in part.

If any part of a single consideration for one or more objects, or any one or any part of any one of several consideration of a single object, is unlawful, the agreement is void.

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A promises to superintend, on behalf of B, a legal manufacture of indigo, and an illegal traffic in another articles B promises to pay to A salary of 10,000 rupees a year. The agreement is void, the object of A’s promise, and the consideration for B’s promise, being in part unlawful.

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