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The Specific Relief Act, 1963

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1. Section 1 — Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Specific Relief Act, 1963.
2. Section 2 — Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
3. Section 3 — Savings.—Except as otherwise provided herein, nothing in this Act shall be deemed—
4. Section 4 — Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing
5. Section 5 — Recovery of specific immovable property.—A person entitled to the possession of specific
6. Section 6 — Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property.—(1) If any person is dispossessed without
7. Section 7 — Recovery of specific movable property.—A person entitled to the possession of specific movable
8. Section 8 — Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate
9. Section 9 — Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract.—Except as otherwise provided herein
10. Section 10 — Specific performance in respect of contracts.—The specific performance of a contract shall be
11. Section 11 — Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable.—(1)
12. Section 12 — Specific performance of part of contract.—(1) Except as otherwise hereinafter provided in this
13. Section 13 — Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title.—(1) Where a
14. Section 14 — Contracts not specifically enforceable.—The following contracts cannot be specifically
15. Section 14A — Power of court to engage experts.—(1) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions
16. Section 15 — Who may obtain specific performance.—Except as otherwise provided by this Chapter, the
17. Section 16 — Personal bars to relief.—Specific performance of a contract cannot be enforced in favour of a
18. Section 17 — Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable.—(1) A
19. Section 18 — Non-enforcement except with variation.—Where a plaintiff seeks specific performance of a
20. Section 19 — Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title.—Except as
21. Section 20 — Substituted performance of contract.—(1) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions
22. Section 20A — Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.—(1) No injunction shall be
23. Section 20B — Special Courts.—The State Government, in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court,
24. Section 20C — Expeditious disposal of suits.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Civil
25. Section 21 — Power to award compensation in certain cases.—(1) In a suit for specific performance of a
26. Section 22 — Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.—(1)
27. Section 23 — Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance.—(1) A contract, otherwise proper to
28. Section 24 — Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance.—The
29. Section 25 — Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute
30. Section 26 — When instrument may be rectified.—(1) When, through fraud or a mutual mistake of the parties,
31. Section 27 — When rescission may be adjudged or refused.—(1) Any person interested in a contract may sue
32. Section 28 — Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property,
33. Section 29 — Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance.—A plaintiff instituting a suit
34. Section 30 — Court may require parties rescinding to do equity.—On adjudging the rescission of a contract,
35. Section 31 — When cancellation may be ordered.—(1) Any person against whom a written instrument is void
36. Section 32 — What instruments may be partially cancelled.—Where an instrument is evidence of different
37. Section 33 — Power to require benefit to be restored or compensation to be made when instrument is
38. Section 34 — Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.—Any person entitled to any legal
39. Section 35 — Effect of declaration.—A declaration made under this Chapter is binding only on the parties to the
40. Section 36 — Preventive relief how granted.—Preventive relief is granted at the discretion of the court by
41. Section 37 — Temporary and perpetual injunctions.—(1) Temporary injunctions are such as are to continue
42. Section 38 — Perpetual injunction when granted.—(1) Subject to the other provisions contained in or referred
43. Section 39 — Mandatory injunctions.—When, to prevent the breach of an obligation, it is necessary to compel
44. Section 40 — Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction.—(1) The plaintiff in a suit for perpetual
45. Section 41 — Injunction when refused.—An injunction cannot be granted—
46. Section 42 — Injunction to perform negative agreement.—Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (e)

Repealed arrangement entries: source evidence

48 arrangement entries are accounted for: 46 body headings and 2 separate repeal-evidence entries. These references are not body section text or currentness approval.

• Arrangement entry 43: [Repealed.]. · shared source repeal footnote. No separate body heading is printed.
• Arrangement entry 44: [Repealed.]. · shared source repeal footnote. No separate body heading is printed.

Schedule locators

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1. THE SCHEDULE — physical page 16 · continuation page 17

Source repeal evidence, amendments and infrastructure Schedule

• Territorial And Commencement Footnotes · section 1: page 4
• Source Amendment Footnotes · section 14, 14A: page 7
• Source Amendment Footnotes · section 20, 20A: page 9
• Source Amendment Footnotes · section 20B, 20C: page 10
• Shared Repeal Footnote Not Body Headings · section 43, 44: page 15
• Infrastructure Schedule Table Start: page 16
• Infrastructure Schedule Table Continuation: page 17

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