Substituted Performance of Contract

Your caterer backs out a week before your sister’s wedding in Nerul. You do not want to spend two years in court for an order that he must cook. You want the wedding fed. So you hire another caterer, and then send the first one the bill. Section 20, substituted in 2018, lets you do exactly that, but only if you play by its rules.

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Section 20 of the Specific Relief Act 1963, substituted in 2018, lets a party who suffers a breach get the contract performed through a third party or his own agency and recover the expenses from the defaulter, but only after a written notice of at least thirty days, and he then cannot sue for specific performance.

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