Supreme Court of India

Silla Chandra Sekharam v. Ramchandra Sahu

Neutral citation
Reported as [1964] 7 S.C.R. 858
Bench K. Subba Rao, K. C. Das Gupta and Raghubar Dayal JJ.
Decided 24 April 1964

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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 sum on the condition that he and his mother 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

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