SRA MCQ Quiz in বাংলা - Objective Question with Answer for SRA - বিনামূল্যে ডাউনলোড করুন [PDF]

The correct option is The suffering party can still claim compensation from the defaulting party.

Key Points

• Section 20: Substituted Performance of Contract:
  • A party suffering from a breach can opt for substituted performance through a third party or by their agency. 
  • They can recover the expenses and costs incurred by the party committing the breach.
  • Notice of at least thirty days must be given to the party in breach before opting for substituted performance.
  • If the contract is performed through a third party or by the suffering party's agency, they cannot claim specific performance against the party in breach.
  • The party suffering from the breach can still claim compensation from the defaulting party.

The correct option is 1 March 1964.

Key Points

• Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement-
  • This Act may be called the Specific Relief Act, of 1963.
  • It extends to the whole of India.
  • It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint-
    • Assent of President – 13th December 1963.
    • The act came into force on 1st March 1964.
    • 9th Report – Law Commission

The correct answer is Option 2.

Key Points

•  A Declaratory Decree, under the Specific Relief Act 1963, aims to settle controversies or disputes regarding legal rights or obligations without granting any actual relief or requiring any action to be taken.
• This decree is sought when there's a need for the court to declare the legal position or rights of the parties involved in a dispute without enforcing any specific action.
• It helps in clarifying the legal relationship between the parties or the legal status of a right, title, or obligation without providing any immediate remedy or compelling any party to act. 

The correct answer is for enforcing individual civil rights.

Key Points

•  Section 4 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 states that specific relief can be granted only for the purpose of enforcing individual civil rights and not for the mere purpose of enforcing a penal law.
• The object of the legislature is that the enforcement of a penal law should not be the sole object of the specific relief, the real object being the protection of civil rights of a suitor or prevention of a civil wrong to him. Where, however, the enforcement of a penal law is merely ancillary or incidental to the grant of specific relief, the court will not necessarily refuse it.

The correct answer is Both 1 and 2 

Key Points Section 36. Preventive relief how granted.
Preventive relief is granted at the discretion of the court by injunction, temporary or perpetual.

Additional Information Section 37. Temporary and perpetual injunctions.
(1) Temporary injunctions are such as are to continue until a specific time, or until the further order of the court, and they maybe granted at any stage of a suit, and are regulated by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).
(2) A perpetual injunction can only be granted by the decree made at the hearing and upon the merits of the suit; the defendant is thereby perpetually enjoined from the assertion of a right, or from the commission of an act, which would be contrary to the rights of the plaintiff.

The correct answer is Option 2.

Key Points

• Section 23 of the Specific Relief Act says, liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance.
• It says, A contract, otherwise proper to be specifically enforced, may be so enforced, though a sum be named in it as the amount to be paid in case
  of its breach and the party in default is willing to pay the same, if the court, having regard to the terms of the contract and other attending circumstances, is satisfied that the sum was named only for the purpose of securing performance of the contract and not for the purpose of giving to the party in default an option of paying money in lieu of specific performance.
• The above situation is covered u/s 23 SRA. It says even if any amount is given under the contract, to be paid in case of breach and the court is of the opinion that, the amount is just to secure the specific performance and not for giving an option for paying in lieu of performance.

The correct answer is option 1.Key Points

• Section 14 of Specific Relief  Act 1872 deals with Contracts not specifically enforceable.
• The following contracts cannot be specifically enforced, namely:
  • (a) Where a party to the contract has obtained substituted performance of contract in accordance with the provisions of section 20;
  • (b) A contract, the performance of which involves the performance of a continuous duty which the court cannot supervise;
  • (c) A contract which is so dependent on the personal qualifications of the parties that the court cannot enforce specific performance of its material terms; and
  • (d) A contract which is in its nature determinable.
• A contract for the non-performance of which compensation is not an adequate relief then the contract can be specifically enforced.

The correct answer is Option 4

Key PointsSection 21 of the Specific Relief Act allows plaintiffs in specific performance suits to claim compensation for breach of contract.

• If specific performance is denied but breach is established, compensation is awarded.
• Even if specific performance is granted but insufficient, compensation can be awarded.
• The court determines compensation based on principles from Section 73 of the Indian Contract Act.
• Plaintiffs must initially claim compensation in their plaint, but can amend it later if omitted.

The correct answer is OPTION 1.

Key Points

• Section 11 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963, provides for the Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable.
• It states that —(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, specific performance of a contract shall, be enforced when the act agreed to be done is in the performance wholly or partly of a trust.
  (2) A contract made by a trustee in excess of his powers or in breach of trust cannot be specifically enforced.