Central · Act 47 of 1963

The Specific Relief Act, 1963

An Act to define and amend the law relating to certain kinds of specific relief.

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Jurisdiction
Central
Enactment date
1963-12-13
Sections available
48

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01-03-1964

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1Short title, extent and commencement.→2Definitions.→3Savings.→4Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws.→5Recovery of specific immovable property.→6Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property.→7Recovery of specific movable property.→8Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession.→9Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract.→10Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable.→11Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable.→12Specific performance of part of contract.→13Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title.→14Contracts not specifically enforceable.→14APower of court to engage experts.→15Who may obtain specific performance.→16Personal bars to relief.→17Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable.→18Non-enforcement except with variation.→19Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title.→20Substituted performance of contract→20ASpecial provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.→20BSpecial Courts.→20CExpeditious disposal of suits.→21Power to award compensation in certain cases.→22Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.→23Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance.→24Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance.→25Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements.→26When instrument may be rectified.→27When rescission may be adjudged or refused.→28Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed.→29Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance.→30Court may require parties rescinding to do equity.→31When cancellation may be ordered.→32What instruments may be partially cancelled.→33Power to require benefit to be restored or compensation to be made when instrument is cancelled or is successfully resisted as being void or voidable.→34Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.→35Effect of declaration.→36Preventive relief how granted.→37Temporary and perpetual injunctions.→38Perpetual injunction when granted.→39Mandatory injunctions.→40Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction.→41Injunction when refused.→42Injunction to perform negative agreement.→43Repealed.→44Repealed.→

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