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PETITIONER:

JAGDISH SINGH

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

NATTHU SINGH

DATE OF JUDGMENT25/11/1991

BENCH:

VENKATACHALLIAH, M.N. (J)

BENCH:

VENKATACHALLIAH, M.N. (J)

AGRAWAL, S.C. (J)

CITATION:

1992 AIR 1604 1991 SCR Supl. (2) 567

1992 SCC (1) 647 1991 SCALE (2)1363

ACT:

Specific Relief Act, 1963: Section 21 (2), (4) &

(5)---Proviso.

Suit for specific performance--Acquisition of suit

properties during the pendency of second appeal--Effect

of--Nature of relief available to plaintiff--Power of Court

to grant compensation--Held where the contract becomes

impossible of performance for no fault of

plaintiff-----Court can award compensation in lieu and

substitution of specific performance--Measure of compensa-

tions by the standards of Section 73 of the Contract

Act--Scope of the Proviso explained--Distinction between

Indian Law and English law discussed.

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: Section 100

Second Appeal--High Court--Power to reappreciate evi-

dence and disturb concurrent findings of fact----Held find-

ings of fact vitiated by no