The Specific Relief Act, 1963

Central Act · Act 47 of 196346 provisions197 citing judgments

The enactment

Full text, provision by provision

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• Section 1 Short title, extent and commencement.
• Section 2 Definitions.1 citing judgment
• Section 3 Savings.5 citing judgments
• Section 4 Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws.1 citing judgment
• Section 5 Recovery of specific immovable property.
• Section 6 Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property.9 citing judgments
• Section 7 Recovery of specific movable property.2 citing judgments
• Section 8 Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession.3 citing judgments
• Section 9 Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract.
• Section 10 Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable.9 citing judgments
• Section 11 Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable.2 citing judgments
• Section 12 Specific performance of part of contract.5 citing judgments
• Section 13 Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title.2 citing judgments
• Section 14 Contracts not specifically enforceable.13 citing judgments
• Section 14A Power of court to engage experts.
• Section 15 Who may obtain specific performance.
• Section 16 Personal bars to relief.23 citing judgments
• Section 17 Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable.
• Section 18 Non-enforcement except with variation.
• Section 19 Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title.5 citing judgments
• Section 20 Substituted performance of contract29 citing judgments
• Section 20A Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.3 citing judgments
• Section 20B Special Courts.
• Section 20C Expeditious disposal of suits.
• Section 21 Power to award compensation in certain cases.3 citing judgments
• Section 22 Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.6 citing judgments
• Section 23 Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance.1 citing judgment
• Section 24 Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance.
• Section 25 Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements.
• Section 26 When instrument may be rectified.1 citing judgment
• Section 27 When rescission may be adjudged or refused.2 citing judgments
• Section 28 Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed.14 citing judgments
• Section 29 Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance.1 citing judgment
• Section 30 Court may require parties rescinding to do equity.1 citing judgment
• Section 31 When cancellation may be ordered.12 citing judgments
• Section 32 What instruments may be partially cancelled.1 citing judgment
• Section 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.1 citing judgment
• Section 34 Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.24 citing judgments
• Section 35 Effect of declaration.2 citing judgments
• Section 36 Preventive relief how granted.
• Section 37 Temporary and perpetual injunctions.1 citing judgment
• Section 38 Perpetual injunction when granted.5 citing judgments
• Section 39 Mandatory injunctions.2 citing judgments
• Section 40 Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction.
• Section 41 Injunction when refused.5 citing judgments
• Section 42 Injunction to perform negative agreement.3 citing judgments