(1) Except as otherwise provided in sub-section (3) or in Section 245, where there are two or more co-sharers in any right, title or interest, all things required or permitted to be done by the possessor of the same shall be done by them conjointly, unless they have appointed an agent to act on behalf of all of them.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall affect any local usage or special contract by which a co-sharer in an undivided property is entitled to receive separately the whole or his share of the rent payable by a tenant.
(3) When one or two or more co-sharers is not entitled to sue alone and the remaining co-sharers refuse to join as plaintiffs in a suit for money recoverable by them jointly, such co-sharer may sue separately for his share, joining the remaining co-sharers as defendants.
(4) Where the tenant of a holding or the illegal transferee of such tenant is also a co-sharer in the proprietary right in such holding, nothing in this section shall require him to be joined as plaintiff in any suit or application brought or made against him as such tenant, or illegal transferee under the provisions of this Act.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall affect any local usage or special contract by which a co-sharer in an undivided property is entitled to receive separately the whole or his share of the rent payable by a tenant.
(3) When one or two or more co-sharers is not entitled to sue alone and the remaining co-sharers refuse to join as plaintiffs in a suit for money recoverable by them jointly, such co-sharer may sue separately for his share, joining the remaining co-sharers as defendants.
(4) Where the tenant of a holding or the illegal transferee of such tenant is also a co-sharer in the proprietary right in such holding, nothing in this section shall require him to be joined as plaintiff in any suit or application brought or made against him as such tenant, or illegal transferee under the provisions of this Act.
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