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The Specific Relief Act, 1963: page 2

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                                Substituted performance of contracts, etc.
SECTIONS
   20. Substituted performance of contract.
   20A. Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project.
   20B. Special Courts.
   20C. 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.
                                               CHAPTER III
                                     RECTIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS
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   26. When instrument may be rectified.
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                                               CHAPTER IV aC
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                                         RESCISSION OF CONTRACTS
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   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.
                                               CHAPTER V
                                     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.
                                               CHAPTER VI
                                          DECLARATORY DECREES
   34. Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.
   35. Effect of declaration.
                                                  PART III
                                            PREVENTIVE RELIEF
                                               CHAPTER VII
                                         INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY
   36. Preventive relief how granted.


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