Specific Relief Act, 1963

Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencement

Section - 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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