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Demand for Payment

A written demand for a sum said to be owed — for goods supplied, services rendered, money lent, rent, or an unpaid invoice. It states how the money came to be owed, what is claimed, and by when the sender wants it. A private communication between the sender and the recipient: no statute requires it, prescribes its form, or fixes a period for it.

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What this document contains

5 clauses every demand for payment carries, plus 4 you can add.

01
Who the notice is from and to
The head of the notice: the place and date it bears, who it issues from, and everyone it is addressed to. Recipients are entered here rather than through the party picker — a notice is served on its recipients, not agreed with them, and the Sender is its only signatory.
02
Subject
The one line a recipient reads first, and the line the notice is later found by in a file. Written by the Sender rather than composed from the facts — those live on other clauses, and a clause cannot read another clause's data.
03
How the money came to be owed
The Sender's own account of the dealing the money arises from. Dharaa supplies the lead-in phrase and nothing else — the facts are whatever the Sender writes, because they are the Sender's facts.
04
The sum demanded
The sum the Sender is asking for, what it is made up of, and anything already credited against it. Nothing here computes the total: it is the figure the Sender states, and it should be the figure the Sender can stand behind if asked to explain it.
05
The demand
The paragraph the instrument exists for: the call to pay, the time allowed, and how to pay. The period is the Sender's own choice — no statute fixes one for a demand of this kind — and nothing in this document computes a date from it.

Optional clauses

Requests already made
A record of the times the Sender has already asked for the money. Optional, and not suggested by default: a great many demands are the first written communication there has been, and a paragraph reciting requests that were never made would be a false statement Dharaa prompted for.
Worth adding when: the sender has already asked for the money — a reminder, a phone call, an earlier letter
What the Sender intends if this notice is not complied with
The paragraph a notice conventionally ends with, in which the Sender says what they intend if it is not complied with. Optional, and never added automatically: whether to say anything at all is the Sender's decision. Where the Sender has words of their own they are used verbatim; where they have none, a neutral closing sentence is rendered that names no remedy and predicts no outcome.
Worth adding when: the sender has said what they intend to do if the notice is not complied with
Enclosures
The documents sent with the notice. Optional, because many notices enclose nothing.
Worth adding when: the sender is sending documents along with the notice
Custom Clause
A free-form clause for bespoke provisions not covered by standard clauses. Use clauseId 'custom-clause-1', 'custom-clause-2', etc. to add multiple. The LLM provides clauseTitle and clauseBody. Use the sequence parameter to control placement.

What the law requires

When a period begins to run: A period running from receipt and a period running from the date of the notice count different things. Where a document is sent by post, service is deemed to be effected at the time the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, unless the contrary is proved.; General Clauses Act 1897, s. 27
Stamp duty: The Indian Stamp Act charges the instruments listed in its Schedule. A notice is not among them: it creates no right, transfers no property and records no bargain.; Indian Stamp Act 1899, s. 3 and Sch. I
What this notice is: A demand for payment is a private communication between the Sender and the Recipient. No statute requires it, prescribes its form, or fixes a period for it. It takes effect as a communication, not as a step in any procedure.; Indian Contract Act 1872 (no notice requirement); contrast Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, s. 138, which does prescribe one
Notices that a statute does prescribe: Some demands are governed by their own statutes and have their own form, period and consequences — a dishonoured cheque under s. 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, an operational-debt demand under s. 8 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, a landlord's notice to quit under s. 106 of the Transfer of Property Act 1882. This document is none of those.; Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, s. 138; Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, s. 8; Transfer of Property Act 1882, s. 106
Limitation: Claims for the price of goods sold, for money payable, and for breach of contract are governed by the Limitation Act 1963, which fixes both the period and the point from which it runs for each kind of claim. A fresh period begins on an acknowledgement of liability made in writing and signed before the existing period expires. A demand notice does not by itself extend or restart limitation.; Limitation Act 1963, s. 18 and Schedule I, Arts. 14–19 and 55
Interest: Where a proceeding is for the recovery of a debt or damages, the Interest Act 1978 allows interest to be claimed from the date a written notice demanding it was given, where the sum is certain. What a notice claims and what a court allows are decided separately, and s. 34 of the Code of Civil Procedure governs the latter.; Interest Act 1978, s. 3; Code of Civil Procedure 1908, s. 34

Who signs it

Sender

After it is drafted

Getting it to the recipient
A notice takes effect when it reaches the person it names rather than when it is signed, so how it travels matters about as much as what it says. Registered post with acknowledgement due is the usual choice because it produces both a receipt and a card that comes back; courier and email do the same job where the agreement or the statute allows them. Whichever route it goes by, what it leaves behind is the part worth having.
Keeping the proof it was sent
The postal receipt, the acknowledgement card when it comes back, the courier's tracking printout, the delivery report on an email — whichever way it travelled, that record is what shows the notice went out and when. It tends to matter more later than the notice itself, because a recipient who says nothing reached them is answered by a receipt rather than by a copy of the letter. An envelope that comes back refused or unclaimed is worth keeping unopened for the same reason: refusing a notice is generally not treated as having escaped it.
Letting the period run
The period this notice gives runs from when it reaches the recipient, not from the date it carries — which is why the proof of sending matters for working out when it ends. Moving before it expires tends to undercut the notice, since the point of naming a period is to have given it. If a reply arrives, it is worth keeping with the proof of service: what the other side admits in writing can matter as much as what they refuse.
If the money still does not come
A demand notice is not a step towards any particular forum — it is evidence that a demand was made, and what follows depends on the agreement the debt arises from. An arbitration clause sends it to arbitration rather than to a court. A debt on a written contract may support a summary suit, which is faster than an ordinary one. Failing both, it is an ordinary civil claim. Limitation runs from when the money fell due rather than from this notice, though a written acknowledgement from the other side can start it again — which is one reason a reply is worth keeping. The contract is what decides most of this, so it is the thing to have in hand when you take advice.

Grounded in

General Clauses Act 1897
Indian Stamp Act 1899
Limitation Act 1963
Interest Act 1978
Negotiable Instruments Act 1881
Indian Contract Act 1872

Demand for Payment

What this document contains

Who the notice is from and to

Subject

How the money came to be owed

The sum demanded

The demand

Optional clauses

Requests already made

What the Sender intends if this notice is not complied with

Enclosures

Custom Clause

What the law requires