Section 56 occurs in Chapter IV of the Indian Contract Act which relates to performance of contracts and it purports to deal with one circumstances under which performance of a,…
Section 20(1) of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 provides that the jurisdiction to decree specific performance is discretionary, and the court is not bound to grant such relief, merely because…
Section 17 of the Registration Act, talks about the compulsory registration, it reads thus: “17. Documents of which registration is compulsory.- (1) The following documents shall be registered, if the…
Section 70 reads thus: “Where a person lawfully does anything for another person, or delivers anything to him, not intending to do so gratuitously, and such other person enjoys the…
Banker’s Lien In Halsbury’s Laws of England, Vol.20, 2nd Edn.p.552, para 695, lien is defined as follows: Lien is in its primary sense is a right in one man to…
Under the Contract Act, delivery of goods by one person to another under a contract as security for payment of a debt is a pledge. Ordinarily delivery of tangible property…
Understanding Section 12(3) Sub-section (3) of Section 12 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 was enacted with a view to meet such eventualities when the whole of the contract cannot…
Anson’s law of Contract In Anson’s law of Contract the law is summarised thus: “Acceptance means in general communicated acceptance. * * * * It must be something more than…
In the case of Associated Hotels of India Ltd. v. R.N. Kapoor, 1 SCR 368 the minority judgment rendered by Subba Rao, J, the Court held that there is a…
The right of the lender, or pledgee, is to retain the chattle until a proper tender of the amount due is made. Under Section 173 of the Contract Act, a…
