The Specific Relief Act, 1963
Central · 1963
- S. 1Short title, extent and commencement.
- S. 2Definitions.
- S. 3Savings.
- S. 4Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws.
- S. 5Recovery of specific immovable property.
- S. 6Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property.
- S. 7Recovery of specific movable property.
- S. 8Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession.
- S. 9Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract.
- S. 10Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable.
- S. 11Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable.
- S. 12Specific performance of part of contract.
- S. 13Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title.
- S. 14Contracts not specifically enforceable.
- S. 14APower of court to engage experts.
- S. 15Who may obtain specific performance.
- S. 16Personal bars to relief.
- S. 17Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable.
- S. 18Non-enforcement except with variation.
- S. 19Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title.
- S. 20Substituted performance of contract
- S. 20ASpecial provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.
- S. 20BSpecial Courts.
- S. 20CExpeditious disposal of suits.
- S. 21Power to award compensation in certain cases.
- S. 22Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.
- S. 23Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance.
- S. 24Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance.
- S. 25Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements.
- S. 26When instrument may be rectified.
- S. 27When rescission may be adjudged or refused.
- S. 28Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed.
- S. 29Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance.
- S. 30Court may require parties rescinding to do equity.
- S. 31When cancellation may be ordered.
- S. 32What instruments may be partially cancelled.
- S. 33Power to require benefit to be restored or compensation to be made when instrument is cancelled or is successfully resisted as being void or voidable.
- S. 34Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.
- S. 35Effect of declaration.
- S. 36Preventive relief how granted.
- S. 37Temporary and perpetual injunctions.
- S. 38Perpetual injunction when granted.
- S. 39Mandatory injunctions.
- S. 40Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction.
- S. 41Injunction when refused.
- S. 42Injunction to perform negative agreement.
- S. 43Repealed.
- S. 44Repealed.