Supreme Court of India

Jai Narain Ram Lundia v. Kedar Nath Khetan and Others.

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Reported as [1956] 1 S.C.R. 62
Bench N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar J.
Decided 31 January 1956

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Execlttion-Power of transferee Court,-DeOTet for specific pSf'­ formance-Reciprocal conditions indissolubly link.d together-AltSf'a­ tion in a material particular, if permissible-Code of Civil Procedure (Act of 1908), ss. 47, 42, 0. XXI, r. 82(1). An executing court cannot go behind a decree so as to vary its terms and when the obligations it imposes on the paities are reciprocal and inseverable, rendering pa.rtie.l execution impossible, the decree must be executed wholly as it stands or not at all. This is particularly true of a decree for specific performa.nce where the party who seeks

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