Overview of Specific Relief Act, 1963 (with Charts)

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Preliminary (Ss.1-4)

Specific Relief (Ss.5-35)

S.5-8

S.9-25

S.26-35

Preventive Relief (Ss.36-44)

               RECOVERING POSSESSION OF PROPERTY

                              5. Recovery of specific immovable property

                              6. Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property

                              7. Recovery of specific moveable property

                              8. Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to person entitled to immediate possession

               SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS

                              9. Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract

               CONTRACTS WHICH CAN BE SPECIFICALLY ENFORCED

                              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

               CONTRACTS WHICH CANNOT BE SPECIFICALLY ENFORCED

                              14. Contracts not specifically enforceable

                              14-A. Power of court to engage experts

               PERSONS FOR OR AGAINST WHOM CONTRACTS MAY BE SPECIFICALLY ENFORCED

                              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

                              Substituted performance of contracts, etc.

                              20. Substituted performance of contract

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

                              20-B. Special Courts

                              20-C. 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

               ENFORCEMENT OF AWARDS AND DIRECTIONS TO EXECUTE SETTLEMENTS

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

               RECTIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS

                              26. When instrument may be rectified

               RESCISSION OF CONTRACTS

                              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 performance of which has been decreed

                              29. Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance

                              30. Court may require parties rescinding to do equity

               CANCELLATION OF INSTRUMENTS

                              31. When cancellation may be ordered

                              32. What instruments may be partially cancelled

                              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

               DECLARATORY DECREES

                              34. Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right

                              35. Effect of declaration

               INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY

                              36. Preventive relief how granted

                              37. Temporary and perpetual injunctions

               PERPETUAL INJUNCTIONS

                              38. Perpetual injunctions 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

                              43. Amendment of Act 10 of 1940 [Repealed]

                              44. Repeal [Repealed]