Specific Relief Act, 1963
विनिर्दिष्ट अनुतोष अधिनियम, 1963
Recovery of possession, specific performance of contracts, rectification and cancellation of instruments, declaratory decrees and injunctions.
- 46 sections
- 8 chapters
- Act No. 47 of 1963
Chapters and sections
- Part II: Specific Relief
1Recovering possession of propertyChapter I · Sections 5 to 8
2Specific performance of contractsChapter II · Sections 9 to 25
Contracts which can be specifically enforcedSections 10 to 13
Contracts which cannot be specifically enforcedSections 14 to 14A
Persons for or against whom contracts may be specifically enforcedSections 15 to 19
Substituted performance of contracts, etc.Sections 20 to 24
- 20Substituted performance of contract
- 20ASpecial provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project
- 20BSpecial Courts
- 20CExpeditious disposal of suits
- 21Power to award compensation in certain cases
- 22Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc
- 23Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance
- 24Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance
Enforcement of awards and directions to execute settlementsSection 25
3Rectification of instrumentsChapter III · Section 26
4Rescission of contractsChapter IV · Sections 27 to 30
- 27When rescission may be adjudged or refused
- 28Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed
- 29Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance
- 30Court may require parties rescinding to do equity
6Declaratory decreesChapter VI · Sections 34 to 35
- Part III: Preventive Relief
7Injunctions generallyChapter VII · Sections 36 to 37
8Perpetual injunctionsChapter VIII · Sections 38 to 44
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