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Home Bare Acts Phrase: specific performanceSpecific Relief Act 1963 Chapter II
Title: Specific Performance of Contracts
State: Central
Year: 1963
.....vendor professes to sell unencumbered property, but the property is mortgaged for an amount not exceeding the purchase money and the vendor has in fact only a right to redeem it, the purchaser may compel him to redeem the mortgage and to obtain a valid discharge, and, where necessary, also a conveyance from the mortgagee; (d) where the vendor or lessor sues for specific performance of the contract and the suit is dismissed on the ground of his want of title or imperfect title, the defendant has right to a return of his deposit, if any, with interest thereon, to his costs of the suit, and to a lien for such deposit, interest and costs on the interest, if any, of the vendor or lesser in the property which is the subject-matter of the contract. (2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall also apply, as far as may be, to contracts for the sale or hire of movable property. Section 14 - Contracts not specifically enforceable (1) The following contracts cannot be specifically enforced, namely:-- (a) a contract for the non-performance of which compensation is an adequate relief; (b) a contract which runs into such minute or numerous details or which is so dependent on the.....
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Title: Specific Performance of Part of Contract
State: Central
Year: 1963
.....of the remaining part of the contract and all right to compensation, either for the deficiency or for the loss or damage sustained by him through the default of the defendant. (4) When a part of a contract which, taken by itself, can and ought to be specifically performed, stands on a separate and independent footing from another part of the same contract which cannot or ought not to be specifically performed, the court may direct specific performance of the former part. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, a party to a contract shall be deemed to be unable to perform the whole of his part of it if a portion of its subject matter existing at the date of the contract has ceased to exist at the time of its performance. ___________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 52 of 1964, Schedule II.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 20
Title: Discretion as to Decreeing Specific Performance
State: Central
Year: 1963
.....under circumstances which though not rendering the contract voidable, makes it inequitable to enforce specific performance. Explanation 1.--Mere inadequacy of consideration, or the mere fact that the contract is onerous to the defendant or improvident in its nature, shall not be deemed to constitute an unfair advantage within the meaning of clause (a) or hardship within the meaning of clause (b). Explanation 2.--The question whether the performance of a contract would involve hardship on the defendant within the meaning of clause (b) shall, except in cases where the hardship has resulted from any act of the plaintiff subsequent to the contract, be determined with reference to the circumstances existing at the time of the contract. (3) The court may properly exercise discretion to decree specific performance in any case where the plaintiff has done substantial acts or suffered losses in consequence of a contract capable of specific performance. (4) The court shall not refuse to any party specific performance of a contract merely on the ground that the contract is not enforceable at the instance of the other party.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 15
Title: Who May Obtain Specific Performance
State: Central
Year: 1963
.....of any party thereto: Provided that where the learning, skill, solvency or any personal quality of such party is a material ingredient in the contract, or where the contract provides that his interest shall not be assigned, his representative in interest or his principal shall not be entitled to specific performance of the contract, unless such party has already performed his part of the contract, or the performance thereof by his representative in interest, or his principal, has been accepted by the other party; (c) where the contract is a settlement on marriage, or a compromise of doubtful rights between members of the same family, any person beneficially entitled thereunder; (d) where the contract has been entered into by a tenant for life in due exercise of a power, the remainderman; (e) a reversioner in possession, where the agreement is a covenant entered into with his predecessor in title and the reversioner is entitled to the benefit of such covenant; (f) a reversioner in remainder, where the agreement is such a covenant, and the reversioner is entitled to the benefit thereof and will sustain material injury by reason of its breach; (g) when a company has.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 23
Title: Liquidation of Damages Not a Bar to Specific Performance
State: Central
Year: 1963
(1) A contract, otherwise proper to be specifically enforced, may be so enforced, though a sum be named in itas the amount to be paid in case of its breach and the party in default is willing to pay the same, if the court, having regard to the terms of the contract and other attending circumstances,, is satisfied that the sum was named only for the purpose of securing performance of the contract and not for the purpose of giving to the party in default an option of paying money in lieu of specific performance. (2) When enforcing specific performance under this section, the court shall not also decree payment of the sum so named in the contract.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 11
Title: Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contracts Connected with Trusts Enforceable
State: Central
Year: 1963
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, specific performance of a contract may, in the discretion of the court, be enforced when the act agreed to be done is in the performance wholly or partly of a trust. (2) A contract made by a trustee in excess of his powers or in breach of trust cannot be specifically enforced.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 10
Title: Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contract Enforceable
State: Central
Year: 1963
Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, the specific performance of any contract may, in the discretion of the court, be enforced-- (a) when there exists no standard for ascertaining actual damage caused by the non-performance of the act agreed to be done; or (b) when the act agreed to be done in such that compensation in money for its non-performance would not afford adequate relief. Explanation.--Unless and until the contrary is proved, the court shall presume (i) that the breach of a contract to transfer immovable property cannot be adequately relieved by compensation in money; and (ii) that the breach of a contract to transfer movable property can be so relieved except in the following cases:-- (a) where the property is not an ordinary article of commerce, or is of special value or interest to the plaintiff, or consists of goods which are not easily obtainable in the market; (b) where the property is held by the defendant as the agent or trustee of the plaintiff.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 29
Title: Alternative Prayer for Rescission in Suit for Specific Performance
State: Central
Year: 1963
A plaintiff instituting a suit for the specific performance of a contract in writing may pray in the alternative that, if the contract cannot be specifically enforced, it may be rescinded and delivered up to be cancelled; and the court, if it refuses to enforce the contract specifically, may direct it to be rescinded and delivered up accordingly.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 24
Title: Bar of Suit for Compensation for Breach After Dismissal of Suit for Specific Performance
State: Central
Year: 1963
The dismissal of a suit for specific performance of a contract or part thereof shall bar the plaintiff's right to sue for compensation for the breach of such contract or part, as the case may be, but shall not bar his right to sue for any other relief to which he may be entitled, by reason of such breach.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSpecific Relief Act 1963 Section 28
Title: Rescission in Certain Circumstances of Contracts for the Sale or Lease of Immovable Property, the Specific Performance of Which Has Been Decreed
State: Central
Year: 1963
.....vendor or lessor may apply in the same suit in which the decree is made, to have the contract rescinded and on such application the court may, by order, rescind the contract either so far as regards the party in default or altogether, as the justice of the case may require. (2) Where a contract is rescinded under sub-section (1), the court-- (a) shall direct the purchaser or the lessee, if he has obtained possession of the property under the contract, to restore such possession to the vendor or lessor; and (b) may direct payment to the vendor or lessor of all the rents and profits which have accrued in respect of the property from the date on which possession was so obtained by the purchaser or lessee until restoration of possession to the vendor or lessor, and if the justice of the case so requires, the refund of any sum paid by the vendee or the lessee as earnest money or deposit in connection with the contract. (3) If the purchase or lessee pays the purchase money or other sum which he is ordered to pay under the decree within the period referred to in sub-section (1), the court may, on application made in the same suit, award the purchaser or lessee such further.....
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