SPECIFIC RELIEF ACT, 1963

 

PRELIMINARY

 

1.         Short title, extent and commencement

2.         Definitions

3.         Savings

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

 

SPECIFICRELIEF

 

RECOVERING POSSESSION OF PROPERTY

 

5.         Recovery of specific immovable property

6.         Suit by persons dispossessed of immovable property

7.         Recovery of specific movable property

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

 

SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS

 

9.         Defence respecting suits for relief based on contract

 

CONTRACTS WHICH CAN BE SPECIFICALLY ENFORCED

 

10.        Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable

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

14.        Contracts not specifically enforceable

 

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

 

DISCRETION AND POWERS OF COURT

 

20.        Discretion as to decreeing specific performance

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 void able

 

DECLARATORY DECREES

 

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

35.        Effect of declaration

 

PREVENTIVE RELIEF

 

INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY

 

36.        Preventive relief how granted

37.        Temporary and perpetual injunctions

 

PERPETUAL INJUNCTIONS

 

38.        Perpetual injunction 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