Breach of contract and specific performance: the law in India and England.

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List of Cases:

- Abdul Haque v. Mohammed Yehia Khan AIR 1924 Pat 81

- AC Kunjumohammad v. Govardhan Hathibai AIR 1956 Tr and Coch 93

- Baijnath v. Kshetrahari Sarkar AIR 1955 Cal 210

- Bank Line Ltd v A Capel & Co[1919] AC 435

- Beswick v. Beswick [1968] AC 58, [1967] 2 All ER 1197

- Bradley v. Newsom Sons & Co [1940]3 All ER 60

- Chaplin v. Hicks [1911] 2 KB 786

- Davidson v. Gwynne (1810) 12 East 381

- Dharam Veer v. Union of India AIR 1989 Del 227

- Evans Marshall & Co. Ltd. v. Bertola SA [1973] 1 All ER 992

- Falcke v. Gray (1859) 4 Drew 651

- Freeth v. Burr (1874) LR 9 CP 208

- Frost v. Knight (1872) LR 7 Exch 111 at 114

- Harnam Singh v. Purbi Devi AIR 2000 HP 108

- Heyworth v.

Hutchinson [1867] 2 QB 447

- His Holiness Acharya Swami Ganesh Dassji v. Sita Ram Thapar AIR 1996 SC 2095

- Hungerford Investment Trust Ltd v. Haridas Mundhra AIR 1972 SC 1826

- Johnson v. Bland, 2 Burr. p. 108

- Lamare v. Dixon (1873) LR 6 HL 423

- Magnum Films v. Golcha Properties Pvt Ltd, AIR 1984 Del 162

- Mayawanti v. Kaushalya Devi (1990) 3 SCC 1 at 6

- Sanwarmal Goenka v. Soumyendra Chandra Guptu AIR 1981 Cal 37

- Tandra Venkata Subrahmanayam v. Bhagwat Pandey AIR 1982 Pat 219

- Willan v. Willan, 16 Ves. 83

Introduction.

Contract Law - its broadest aims.

Contract Law in India all over the world has two primary functions. Even a lay person will be able to guess what these two functions are. Contract law is conceptualised, codified and enforced primarily for two reasons: Ensuring that contracts are...