Section 20
Liability Of Coparcener In Joint Family
20. Liability of coparcener in joint family: If a person who is authorized under the prevailing Nepal law to carry out transactions from the property in common that has not been partitioned has taken any contract pursuant to this Act in a manner to have bearing on the property in common, all copartners shall have rights and liabilities in relation to such contract in accordance with the prevailing law. Provided that where, in making arrangement of contract, coparceners have taken a contract upon being agreed to be involved therein, and any other coparcener out of such coparceners, being no agreed to take the contract, gives a notice in writing to the office or authority making arrangement of contract within two months after the date of taking lease or execution slip, such a coparcener shall have no right or liability in relation to that contract.