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relief against forfeiturespecific performanceland sale
Tanwar Enterprises Pty Ltd v Cauchi (Specific Performance)
[2003] HCA 57
Key Principle
Equity will not relieve a defaulting purchaser against a vendor's exercise of a contractual right to terminate a land sale contract for failure to complete by an essential time stipulation unless the vendor's conduct in terminating is unconscientious in the strict equitable sense; mere hardship or 'accident' is not enough.
Area of Law
property
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