law: Specific Relief Act, 1963
  16. Personal bars to relief
  Specific performance of a contract cannot be enforced in
  
  favor of a person-
  (a) who would not be entitled to recover compensation for its
  
  breach; or
  (b) who has become incapable of performing, or violates any
  
  essential term of, the contract that on his part remains to be performed, or
  
  acts in fraud of the contract, or willfully acts at variance with, or in
  
  subversion of, the relation intended to be established by the contract; or
  (c) who fails to aver and prove that he has performed or has
  
  always been ready and willing to perform the essential terms of the contract
  
  which are to be performed by him, other than terms of the performance of which
  
  has been prevented or waived by the defendant.
  Explanation: For the purposes of clause (c),-
  (i) where a contract involves the payment of money, it is not
  
  essential for the plaintiff to actually tender to the defendant or to deposit
  
  in court any money except when so directed by the court;
  (ii) the plaintiff must aver performance of, or readiness and
  
  willingness to perform, the contract according to its true construction.