Supreme Court of India

Motilal Jain v. Smt. Ramdasi Devi and Ors.

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Reported as [2000] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 615

Bench S.S.M. Quadri J.

Decided 20 July 2000

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From the headnote

Specific Reliefs Act, 1963: Sections 9, 16 (c) and Section 21-Agreement to sell entered between the plaintiff and the defendant-Two-third payment made at the time of entering into the agreement-Balance one-third to be paid at the time of execution of the sale deed-Defendant avoided acceptance of balance payment and execution of sale deed-Plaintiff sent three legal notices followed by a suit for specific performance and compensation in the alternative-Suit decreed for specific performance in favour of the p/aintifJ- ln appeal, High Court set aside the decree for specific relief granting a

Authorities it was built on

1962 The Trustees of the Port of Madras by its Chairman v. K. P. V. Sheik Mohamed Rowther & Co. and Others cited by 16
1970 R. C. Chandiok & Anr. v. Chuni Lal Sabharwal & Ors. cited by 10
1969 Ouseph Varghese v. Joseph Aley & Ors. cited by 5

Where later benches applied it

2020 Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprise Limited v. Ks Infraspace Llp Limited and Another relied on
2023 C. Haridasan v. Anappath Parakkattu Vasudeva Kurup & Others referred to
2020 Ferrodous Estates (pvt.) Ltd. v. P. Gopirathnam (dead) & Ors. mentioned
2008 Bal Krishna and Anr. v. Bhagwan Das (dead) and Ors. mentioned
2007 Sita Ram and Ors. v. Radhey Shy Am mentioned
2006 Mst. Sugani v. Rameshwar Das and Anr. mentioned
2006 H.P. Pyarejan v. Dasappa (dead) by Lrs. and Ors. mentioned
2005 Aniglase Yohannan v. Ramlatha and Ors. mentioned
2003 Manjunath Anandappa Urf. Shivappa Hanasi v. Tammanasa and Ors. mentioned
2001 V. Pechimuthu v. Gowrammal mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 8 mentioned

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