SECTIONS | Specific Relief Act, 1963 With Latest Amendment |
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| Preamble |
| PART I : PRELIMINARY |
1. | Short title, extent and commencement |
2. | Definitions |
3. | Savings |
4. | Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws |
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| PART II : SPECIFIC RELIEF |
| CHAPTER I : RECOVERING POSSESSION OF PROPERTY |
5. | Recovery of specific immovable property |
6. | Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property |
7. | Recovery of specific movable property |
8. | Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession |
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| CHAPTER II : SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS |
9. | Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract |
| Contracts which can be specifically enforced |
10. | Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable |
11. | Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable |
12. | Specific performance of part of contract |
13. | Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title |
| Contracts which cannot be specifically enforced |
14. | Contracts not specifically enforceable |
| Persons for or against whom contracts may be specifically enforced |
15. | Who may obtain specific performance |
16. | Personal bars to relief |
17. | Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable |
18. | Non-enforcement except with variation |
19. | Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title |
| Discretion and powers of court |
20. | Discretion as to decreeing specific performance |
21. | Power to award compensation in certain cases |
22. | Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc |
23. | Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance |
24. | Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance |
| Enforcement of awards and directions to execute settlements |
25. | Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements |
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| CHAPTER III : RECTIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS |
26. | When instrument may be rectified |
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| CHAPTER IV : RESCISSION OF CONTRACTS |
27. | When rescission may be adjudged or refused |
28. | Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed |
29. | Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance |
30. | Court may require parties rescinding to do equity |
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| CHAPTER V : CANCELLATION OF INSTRUMENTS |
31. | When cancellation may be ordered |
32. | What instruments may be partially cancelled |
33. | Power to require benefit to be restored or compensation to be made when instrument is cancelled or is successfully resisted as being void or voidable |
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| CHAPTER VI : DECLARATORY DECREES |
34. | Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right |
35. | Effect of declaration |
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| CHAPTER VII : INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY |
36. | Preventive relief how granted |
37. | Temporary and perpetual injunctions |
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| CHAPTER VIII : PERPETUAL INJUNCTIONS |
38. | Perpetual injunction when granted |
39. | Mandatory injunctions |
40. | Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction |
41. | Injunction when refused |
42. | Injunction to perform negative agreement |
43. | Repealed |
44. | Repealed |
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| List of Amending Acts |