Supreme Court · 1964 INSC 134 · Decided 24 April 1964
Silla Chandra Sekharam v. Ramchandra Sahu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1964 INSC 134 · [1964] 7 S.C.R. 858
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 398/1962
- Decided
- 24 April 1964
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, K.C. DAS GUPTA, RAGHUBAR DAYAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Specific Relief Act Section 18(a)
Headnote
Specific Performance-Perfection of title after contract to sell-Applicability of s. IB(a)-'Subsequentlu to the sale or lease. meaning of-Specific Relief Act, 1877 (Act I of 1877), s. 18(a). / The respondent executed an agreement to sell his house in order to meet family necessities for a certain would execute a sale deed in favour of the appellant. On the failure of the execution of the sale-deed the appellant instituted a suit for specific per­ formance of the contract. The trial court hel<l that the sale was not for legal necessity and therefore decreed the suit in part directing
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