law: Transfer of Property Act, 1882
  50. Rent bona fide paid to holder under defective title
  No person shall be chargeable with any rents or profits of any
  
  immovable property, which he has in good faith paid or delivered to any person
  
  of whom he in good faith held such property, notwithstanding it may afterwards
  
  appear that the person to whom such payment or delivery was made had no right
  
  to receive such rents or profits.
  Illustration
  A lets a field to B at a rent of Rs. 50, and then transfers the
  
  field to C. B, having no notice of the transfer, in good faith pays the rent to
  
  A. B is not chargeable with the rent so paid.