Tagged “subsequent-purchaser”

B. Santoshamma v. D. Sarala: partial specific performance and the limits of the subsequent purchaser's protection

On 18 September 2020, a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court upheld a decree of partial specific performance where a vendor had promised the same land twice over. A digest of Section 12 of the Specific Relief Act read purposively, the post-2018 shift from discretion to obligation, and why a subsequent purchaser with notice of an earlier contract cannot invoke Section 19(b).