The Specific Relief Act, 1963

Part I · PRELIMINARY

• s. 1Short title, extent and commencement
• s. 2Definitions
• s. 3Savings
• s. 4Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws

Part II · SPECIFIC RELIEF

Ch. I · RECOVERING POSSESSION OF PROPERTY

• s. 5Recovery of specific immovable property
• s. 6Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property
• s. 7Recovery of specific movable property
• s. 8Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession

Ch. II · SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS

• s. 9Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract
• s. 10Specific performance in respect of contracts
• s. 11Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable
• s. 12Specific performance of part of contract
• s. 13Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title
• s. 14Contracts not specifically enforceable
• s. 14APower of court to engage experts
• s. 15Who may obtain specific performance
• s. 16Personal bars to relief
• s. 17Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable
• s. 18Non-enforcement except with variation
• s. 19Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title
• s. 20Substituted performance of contract
• s. 20ASpecial provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project
• s. 20BSpecial Courts
• s. 20CExpeditious disposal of suits
• s. 21Power to award compensation in certain cases
• s. 22Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc
• s. 23Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance
• s. 24Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance
• s. 25Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements

Ch. III · RECTIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS

• s. 26When instrument may be rectified

Ch. IV · RESCISSION OF CONTRACTS

• s. 27When rescission may be adjudged or refused
• s. 28Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed
• s. 29Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance
• s. 30Court may require parties rescinding to do equity

Ch. V · CANCELLATION OF INSTRUMENTS

• s. 31When cancellation may be ordered
• s. 32What instruments may be partially cancelled
• s. 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

Ch. VI · DECLARATORY DECREES

• s. 34Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right
• s. 35Effect of declaration

Part III · PREVENTIVE RELIEF

Ch. VII · INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY

• s. 36Preventive relief how granted
• s. 37Temporary and perpetual injunctions

Ch. VIII · PERPETUAL INJUNCTIONS

• s. 38Perpetual injunction when granted
• s. 39Mandatory injunctions
• s. 40Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction
• s. 41Injunction when refused
• s. 42Injunction to perform negative agreement