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Specific
Relief Act, 1963
With Latest Amendment |
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Preamble |
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PART I
: PRELIMINARY |
| 1. |
Short
title, extent and commencement |
| 2. |
Definitions |
| 3. |
Savings |
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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 |
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CHAPTER I : RECOVERING
POSSESSION OF PROPERTY |
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Recovery
of specific immovable property |
| 6. |
Suit
by person dispossessed of immovable property |
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Recovery
of specific movable property |
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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 |
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Defences
respecting suits for relief based on contract |
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Contracts which can be
specifically enforced |
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Cases
in which specific performance of contract enforceable |
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Cases
in which specific performance of contracts connected with
trusts enforceable |
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Specific
performance of part of contract |
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Rights
of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or
imperfect title |
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Contracts which cannot
be specifically enforced |
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Contracts
not specifically enforceable |
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Persons for or against
whom contracts may be specifically enforced |
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Who
may obtain specific performance |
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Personal
bars to relief |
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Contract
to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically
enforceable |
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Non-enforcement
except with variation |
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Relief
against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent
title |
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Discretion and powers
of court |
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Discretion
as to decreeing specific performance |
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Power
to award compensation in certain cases |
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Power
to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest
money, etc |
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Liquidation
of damages not a bar to specific performance |
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Bar
of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of
suit for specific performance |
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Enforcement of awards
and directions to execute settlements |
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Application
of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary
directions to execute settlements |
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CHAPTER III : RECTIFICATION
OF INSTRUMENTS |
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When
instrument may be rectified |
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CHAPTER IV : RESCISSION
OF CONTRACTS |
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When
rescission may be adjudged or refused |
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Rescission
in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or
lease of immovable property, the specific performance
of which has been decreed |
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Alternative
prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance |
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Court
may require parties rescinding to do equity |
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CHAPTER V : CANCELLATION
OF INSTRUMENTS |
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When
cancellation may be ordered |
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What
instruments may be partially cancelled |
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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 |
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Discretion
of court as to declaration of status or right |
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Effect
of declaration |
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CHAPTER VII : INJUNCTIONS
GENERALLY |
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Preventive
relief how granted |
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Temporary
and perpetual injunctions |
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CHAPTER VIII : PERPETUAL
INJUNCTIONS |
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Perpetual
injunction when granted |
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Mandatory
injunctions |
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Damages
in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction |
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Injunction
when refused |
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Injunction
to perform negative agreement |
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Repealed |
| 44. |
Repealed |
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List
of Amending Acts |
