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The Specific Relief Act, 1963
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13-12-1963
The Specific Relief Act, 1963
An Act to define and amend the law relating to certain kinds of specific relief.
Ministry of Law and Justice
Legislative Department
Chapters, and Sections
Chapter 1 - 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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Chapter 2 - Part II - Specific Relief - 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 3 - Specific Performance Of Contracts
9 - Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract.
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Chapter 3 - 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.
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Chapter 3 - Contracts Which Cannot Be Specifically Enforced
14 - Contracts not specifically enforceable.
14A - Power of court to engage experts.
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Chapter 3 - 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.
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Chapter 3 - Substituted Performance Of Contracts, Etc.
20 - Substituted performance of contract
20A - Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.
20B - Special Courts.
20C - Expeditious disposal of suits.
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.
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Chapter 3 - 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 4 - Rectification Of Instruments
26 - When instrument may be rectified.
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Chapter 5 - 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 6 - 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 7 - Declaratory Decrees
34 - Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.
35 - Effect of declaration.
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Chapter 8 - Part III - Preventive Relief - Injunctions Generally
36 - Preventive relief how granted.
37 - Temporary and perpetual injunctions.
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Chapter 9 - 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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