Specific Performance of Contracts

You signed an agreement to buy a flat in Panvel and paid the booking amount. The seller now says the price of the flat has doubled and he wants to cancel. Refunding your amount with a little interest does not get you the flat. So you ask the court to make him complete the sale. When will a court agree, and when will it say no?

In two minutes

Specific performance is a court order requiring a party to carry out the contract he made; since 1-10-2018 s.10 says it shall be enforced, subject to s.11(2), s.14 and s.16, so the questions are whether the contract falls in a barred class and whether the plaintiff is himself without fault.

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