Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 75 · Decided 20 January 2022

Shenbagam & ORS. v. KK Rathinavel

Court
Supreme Court of India
Citation
2022 INSC 75 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 346
Case number
CIVIL APPEAL No. 150/2022
Decided
20 January 2022
Bench
D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
Outcome
Appeal(s) allowed
Case type
Civil
Acts & sections cited
Specific Relief Act Section 16, 20

Headnote

Specific Relief Act: s.16 - Bars to the relief of specific performance - Held: s.16 provides certain bars to the relief of specific performance - These include, inter alia, a person who fails to aver and prove that he has performed or has always to perform the essential terms of the contract which are to be performed by him, other than terms the performance of which has been prevented and waived by the defendant. Specific performance: Conduct of the parties - Generally in an agreement for sale of immovable property, time is

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