The Specific Relief Act, 1963
The The Specific Relief Act, 1963, with its 41 sections listed below.
- Act number
- 47 of 1963
- Year
- 1963
- Published by
- India Code · Government of India
- Edition
- India Code source copy; consolidation date not certified
Sections
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 7. Recovery of specific movable property
- 8. Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession
- 9. Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract
- 10. Specific performance in respect of contracts
- 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
- 14. Contracts not specifically enforceable
- 14A. Power of court to engage experts
- 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
- 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
- 25. Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements
- 26. When instrument may be rectified
- 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 p erformance of which has been decreed
- 29. Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance
- 30. Court may require parties rescinding to do equity
- 31. When cancellation may be ordered
- 32. What instruments may be partially cancel led
- 33. Power to require benefit to be restored or compensation to be made when instrum ent is cancelled or is successfully resisted as being void or voidable
- 34. Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right
- 35. Effect of declaration
- 36. Preventive relief how granted
- 37. Temporary and 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
For research. Check the official gazette and later amendments before citing a section.