Specific Relief Act, 1963

Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencement

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Section - 2 - Definitions

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Section - 3 - Savings

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Section - 4 - Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws

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Section - 5 - Recovery of specific immovable property

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Section - 6 - Suit by persons dispossessed of immovable property

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Section - 7 - Recovery of specific movable property

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Section - 8 - Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession

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Section - 9 - Defence respecting suits for relief based on contract

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Section - 10 - Specific performance in respect of contracts

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Section - 11 - Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trust enforceable

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Section - 12 - Specific performance of part of contract

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Section - 13 - Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title

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Section - 14 - Contracts not specifically enforceable

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Section - 14A - Power of court to engage experts

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Section - 15 - Who may obtain specific performance

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Section - 16 - Personal bars to relief

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Section - 17 - Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable

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Section - 18 - Non-enforcement except with variation

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Section - 19 - Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title

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Section - 20 - Substituted performance of contract

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Section - 20A - Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.

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Section - 20B - Special Courts

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Section - 20C - Expeditious disposal of suits

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Section - 21 - Power to award compensation in certain cases

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Section - 22 - Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.

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Section - 23 - Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance

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Section - 24 - Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance.

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Section - 25 - Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements

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Section - 26 - When instrument may be rectified

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Section - 27 - Where rescission may be adjudged or refused

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Section - 28 - Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed

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Section - 29 - Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance

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Section - 30 - Court may require parties rescinding to do equity

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Section - 31 - When cancellation may be ordered

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Section - 32 - What instruments may be partially cancelled

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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

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Section - 34 - Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right

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Section - 35 - Effect of declaration

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Section - 36 - Preventive relief how granted

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Section - 37 - Temporary and perpetual injunctions

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Section - 38 - Perpetual injunction when granted

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Section - 39 - Mandatory injunctions

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Section - 40 - Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction

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Section - 41 - Injunction when refused

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Section - 42 - Injunction to perform negative agreement

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Section - 43 - Amendment of Act 10 of 1940

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Section - 44 - Repeal

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Schedule - Category of projects and Infrastructure Sub-Sectors

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