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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Specific Relief Act 1963

Complete Act - all sections

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https://sooperkanoon.com/act/51513

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About this act

Specific Relief Act 1963 is Central state legislation published on SooperKanoon in full. Use this page to read the bare act and jump to judgments that cite it.

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Act Text

Preamble1 - Specific Relief Act, 1963
PartI - Preliminary
Section1 - Short Title, Extent and Commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Section3 - Savings
Section4 - Specific Relief to Be Granted Only for Enforcing Individual Civil Rights and Not for Enforcing Penal Laws
PartII - Specific Relief
ChapterI - Recovering Possession of Property
Section5 - Recovery of Specific Immovable Property
Section6 - Suit by Person Dispossessed of Immovable Property
Section7 - Recovery of Specific Movable Property
Section8 - Liability of Person in Possession, Not as Owner, to Deliver to Persons Entitled to Immediate Possession
ChapterII - Specific Performance of Contracts
Section9 - Defences Respecting Suits for Relief Based on Contract
Section10 - Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contract Enforceable
Section11 - Cases in Which Specific Performance of Contracts Connected with Trusts Enforceable
Section12 - Specific Performance of Part of Contract
Section13 - Rights of Purchaser or Lessee Against Person with No Title or Imperfect Title
Section14 - Contracts Not Specifically Enforceable
Section15 - Who May Obtain Specific Performance
Section16 - Personal Bars to Relief
Section17 - Contract to Sell or Let Property by One Who Has No Title, Not Specifically Enforceable
Section18 - Non-enforcement Except with Variation
Section19 - Relief Against Parties and Persons Claiming Under Them by Subsequent Title
Section20 - Discretion as to Decreeing Specific Performance
Section21 - Power to Award Compensation in Certain Cases
Section22 - Power to Grant Relief for Possession, Partition, Refund of Earnest Money, Etc
Section23 - Liquidation of Damages Not a Bar to Specific Performance
Section24 - Bar of Suit for Compensation for Breach After Dismissal of Suit for Specific Performance
Section25 - Application of Preceding Sections to Certain Awards and Testamentary Directions to Execute Settlements
ChapterIII - Rectification of Instruments
Section26 - When Instrument May Be Rectified
ChapterIV - Rescission of Contracts
Section27 - When Rescission May Be Adjudged or Refused
Section28 - Rescission in Certain Circumstances of Contracts for the Sale or Lease of Immovable Property, the Specific Performance of Which Has Been Decreed
Section29 - Alternative Prayer for Rescission in Suit for Specific Performance
Section30 - Court May Require Parties Rescinding to Do Equity
ChapterV - Cancellation of Instruments
Section31 - When Cancellation May Be Ordered
Section32 - What Instruments May Be Partially Cancelled
Section33 - 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
ChapterVI - Declaratory Decrees
Section34 - Discretion of Court as to Declaration of Status or Right
Section35 - Effect of Declaration
PartIII - Preventive Relief
ChapterVII - Injunctions Generally
Section36 - Preventive Relief How Granted
Section37 - Temporary and Perpetual Injunctions
ChapterVIII - Perpetual Injunctions
Section38 - Perpetual Injunction when Granted
Section39 - Mandatory Injunctions
Section40 - Damages in Lieu Of, or in Addition To, Injunction
Section41 - Injunction when Refused
Section42 - Injunction to Perform Negative Agreement
Section43 - Amendment of Act 10 of 1940 [Repeal]
Section44 - [Repeal]

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What is the Specific Relief Act 1963?

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