Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Time was not essence of contract - Suit filed after a long gap of 33 years from date of execution of agreement to sell - No effort was ever made by plaintiff to get sale deed executed in her favour - When plaintiff failed to file suit for specific performance within reasonable time from the date of execution of agreement and..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - It is not necessary that plaintiff in a case for specific performance has to produce money or vouch a concluded scheme for financing the transaction to prove his readiness and willingness in order to successful claim of decree of specific performance...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - Willingness can be gathered from the conduct of party and readiness can be gathered from his capacity to pay the amount...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - Finding of readiness and willingness of plaintiff is necessarily a finding of the fact which has to be rendered by Court on the basis of nature of agreement and evidence and material on record in the context of readiness of parties...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - Defendant denied the execution of agreement - However, plaintiff has duly proved the agreement - Neither averment in written statement that plaintiff was not ready and willing to perform his part of contract nor there was any suggestion to that effect in the cross-examination of plaintiff - Plaintiff..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - Even if defendant remains ex parte, decree would not follow automatically and plaintiff has to establish by pleadings as well as by proof that he has always ready and willing to perform his part of contract...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - Mere presence of plaintiff before Sub-Registrar would be of no avail when it is not proved that plaintiff was ready with money - Absence of defendant on that occasion cannot be put against him...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - It is not enough for plaintiff to be merely willing to complete transaction but he must also exhibit readiness coupled with said willingness to satisfy Court that he had wherewithal to pay balance sale consideration and he was willing to go ahead and pay same and complete sale transaction - Unless both..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - S.16 of Specific Relief Act is a personal bar to relief - Even if it is accepted that conduct of defendant is also material but first and foremost it is for plaintiff to establish that he was ready and willing to perform his obligations...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - Plaintiff miserably failed to show that he had sufficient funds at the relevant points of time - Despite specific demand made by defendant plaintiff has not come with balance money and offered/paid to defendant - Readiness and willingness on the part of plaintiff not proved - Decree for specific..........
