Specific Relief Act, 1963
Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencementSection - 2 - Definitions
Section - 3 - Savings
Section - 4 - Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws
Section - 5 - Recovery of specific immovable property
Section - 6 - Suit by persons dispossessed of immovable property
Section - 7 - Recovery of specific movable property
Section - 8 - Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession
Section - 9 - Defence respecting suits for relief based on contract
Section - 10 - Specific performance in respect of contracts
Section - 11 - Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trust enforceable
Section - 12 - Specific performance of part of contract
Section - 13 - Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title
Section - 14 - Contracts not specifically enforceable
Section - 14A - Power of court to engage experts
Section - 15 - Who may obtain specific performance
Section - 16 - Personal bars to relief
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
Section - 20 - Substituted performance of contract
Section - 20A - Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.
Section - 20B - Special Courts
Section - 20C - Expeditious disposal of suits
Section - 21 - Power to award compensation in certain cases
Section - 22 - Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.
Section - 23 - Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance
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
Section - 27 - Where rescission may be adjudged or refused
Section - 28 - Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed
Section - 29 - Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance
Section - 30 - Court may require parties rescinding to do equity
Section - 31 - When cancellation may be ordered
Section - 32 - What instruments may be partially cancelled
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
Section - 34 - Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right
Section - 35 - Effect of declaration
Section - 36 - Preventive relief how granted
Section - 37 - Temporary and perpetual injunctions
Section - 38 - Perpetual injunction when granted
Section - 39 - Mandatory injunctions
Section - 40 - Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction
Section - 41 - Injunction when refused
Section - 42 - Injunction to perform negative agreement
Section - 43 - Amendment of Act 10 of 1940
Section - 44 - Repeal
Schedule - Category of projects and Infrastructure Sub-Sectors
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