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Specific Relief Act, 1963

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1Short title, extent and commencementView Details
10 Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceableView Details
11 Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trust enforceableView Details
12 Specific performance of part of contractView Details
13 Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect titleView Details
14Contracts not specifically enforceableView Details
15 Who may obtain specific performanceView Details
16 Personal bars to reliefView Details
17 Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceableView Details
18 Non-enforcement except with variationView Details
19 Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent titleView Details
2DefinitionsView Details
20Discretion as to decreeing specific performanceView Details
21Power to award compensation in certain casesView Details
22Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etcView Details
23Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performanceView Details
24Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performanceView Details
25 Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlementsView Details
27 Where rescission may be adjudged or refusedView Details
28 Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreedView Details
29 Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performanceView Details
3 SavingView Details
30 Court may require parties rescinding to do equityView Details
31When cancellation may be orderedView Details
32What instruments may be partially cancelledView Details
33Power to require benefit to be restored or compensation to be made when instrument is cancelled or is successfully resisted as being void or voidableView Details
34 Discretion of court as to declaration of status or rightView Details
35 Effect of declarationView Details
36 Preventive relief how grantedView Details
37 Temporary and perpetual injunctionsView Details
38Perpetual injunction when grantedView Details
39Mandatory injunctionsView Details
4 Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal lawsView Details
40Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunctionView Details
41Injunction when refusedView Details
42Injunction to perform negative agreementView Details
43Specific Relief Act, 1963View Details
44Specific Relief Act, 1963View Details
5 Recovery of specific immovable propertyView Details
6 Suit by persons dispossessed of immovable propertyView Details
7 Recovery of specific movable propertyView Details
8 Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possessionView Details
99. Defense respecting suits for relief based on contractView Details

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