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An order of specific performance is generally not granted if any of the following is true: Specific performance would cause severe hardship to the defendant. The contract was unconscionable. Money damages are an adequate remedy. [2] [3] The claimant has misbehaved (unclean hands). Specific performance is impossible.
The buyer of the house demanded specific performance to convey the property. Judgment. Goulding J refused to grant specific performance, and granted only damages. As ...
Beswick v Beswick [1967] UKHL 2, [1968] AC 58 was a landmark English contract law case on privity of contract and specific performance.The House of Lords, overruling the decision of Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal, ruled that a person who was not party to a contract had no independent standing to sue to enforce it, even if the contract was clearly intended for their benefit.
Specific performance This type of equitable remedy is limited in scope because in contract laws for example, issuing specific performance would require the property that gives rise to the lawsuit to be unique, or that it is more practical for the defendant to compensate the plaintiff by paying for compensatory damages.
The Specific Relief Act, 1963 is an Act of the Parliament of India which provides remedies for persons whose civil or contractual rights have been violated. It replaced an earlier Act of 1877. The following kinds of remedies may be granted by a court under the provisions of the Specific Relief Act: Recovery of possession of property
An injunction is an equitable remedy [a] in the form of a special court order that compels a party to refrain from specific acts. [1] [2] It was developed by the English courts of equity but its origins go back to Roman law and the equitable remedy of the "interdict".
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Maxims of equity are legal maxims that serve as a set of general principles or rules which are said to govern the way in which equity operates. They tend to illustrate the qualities of equity, in contrast to the common law, as a more flexible, responsive approach to the needs of the individual, inclined to take into account the parties' conduct and worthiness.