Specific performance of contracts (ss. 9-25): the 2018 rule, the s. 14 exclusions, readiness and willingness, substituted performance
LUG-103 Law of Contract including Specific Relief Act & Sale of Goods Act, Unit IV: Contracts which cannot be specifically enforced (ss. 10–14A). · LLB · 60 min
Chapter II of the Specific Relief Act, the heart of the unit: what specific performance is, the old discretionary s. 10 and the new mandatory s. 10, trusts (s. 11), part performance (s. 12), the contracts that cannot be specifically enforced (s. 14 as rewritten), experts (s. 14A), who may sue (s. 15) and the personal bars of s. 16 with the readiness-and-willingness cases (K.S. Vidyanadam, Sardar Singh, Zarina Siddiqui), substituted performance (s. 20), the infrastructure, special court and twelve-month provisions (ss. 20A-20C), compensation (s. 21) and the prospective operation of the Amendment (Katta Sujatha Reddy).
Objectives
- Explain the nature of specific performance and state precisely how the 2018 Amendment changed s. 10, s. 14, s. 16, s. 20 and s. 21.
- List the contracts which cannot be specifically enforced under the new s. 14 and compare them with the old list.
- Explain readiness and willingness under s. 16(c) and apply K.S. Vidyanadam, Sardar Singh and Zarina Siddiqui to a problem.
- Describe substituted performance under s. 20, the thirty-day notice and its consequences.
- State the special provisions for infrastructure projects (ss. 20A, 20B, 20C, 41(ha)) and the rule on compensation (s. 21).
Slides
- What specific performance is; the defences of s. 9
- Section 10 before and after 2018
- Trusts (s. 11), part of a contract (s. 12), imperfect title (s. 13)
- Section 14: contracts not specifically enforceable, old list and new
- Section 14A experts; s. 15 who may obtain; s. 16 personal bars
- Readiness and willingness: the cases
- Sections 17 to 19: no title, variation, against whom
- Section 20: from discretion to substituted performance
- Sections 20A, 20B and 20C: infrastructure, special courts, twelve months
- Sections 21 to 25: compensation and the rest of the chapter
- Prospectivity and how the examiner asks it
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