Tagore Law Lectures 1906. The Law of Specific Relief in British India

It is scarcely necessary to emphasise that the essential principles of equity know of no local or temporal conditions and that no genuine student of law or of any other subject of study for the matter of that can object to light because it comes from one quarter rather than another. [...] In citing foreign decisions I have for the benefit of students frequently added references to some of the many volumes of Selections of Cases which have been published in America and England. [...] 22 Limitation of doctrine of specific performance 24 Executory and executed contracts 26 Voidable and void agreements 29 Rescission of contracts 30 Cancellation of instruments 30 Rectification of instruments 11. [...] (d) contract discharged 41 waiver or abandonment novation non-fulfilment of condition in contingent contract time of the essence of contract rescission impossibility of performance.. equitable conversion doctrine of Indian law res perit domino... [...] Equitable Defences : (a) contract uncertain reasonable certainty interpretation of vague and general expressions (b) contract unfair contingency unequal position of parties prejudice to third party inconvenience to the public (c) contract hard.. limitations of the doctrine inequality in inception of contract operation...