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The Specific Relief Act, 1963

An Act to define and amend the law relating to certain kinds of specific relief.

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Act Details

Act Number:

Act Year:

1963

Location:

Chhattisgarh

Enactment Date:

12/13/1963

Enforcement Date:

01-03-1964

Department:

Department of LAW AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

All Section List (Specific Relief Act)

PRELIMINARY

Section 1 to Section 4

Section 1

Short title, extent and commencement.

Section 2

Definitions.

Section 3

Savings.

Section 4

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

RECOVERING POSSESSION OF PROPERTY

Section 5 to Section 8

Section 5

Recovery of specific immovable property.

Section 6

Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property.

Section 7

Recovery of specific movable property.

Section 8

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

SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS

Section 9

Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract.

RECTIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS

Section 26

When instrument may be rectified.

RESCISSION OF CONTRACTS

Section 27 to Section 30

Section 27

When rescission may be adjudged or refused.

Section 28

Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed.

Section 29

Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance.

Section 30

Court may require parties rescinding to do equity.

CANCELLATION OF INSTRUMENTS

Section 31 to Section 33

Section 31

When cancellation may be ordered.

Section 32

What instruments may be partially cancelled.

Section 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.

DECLARATORY DECREES

Section 34 to Section 35

Section 34

Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right.

Section 35

Effect of declaration.

INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY

Section 36 to Section 37

Section 36

Preventive relief how granted.

Section 37

Temporary and perpetual injunctions.

PERPETUAL INJUNCTIONS

Section 38 to Section 44

Section 38

Perpetual injunction when granted.

Section 39

Mandatory injunctions.

Section 40

Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction.

Section 41

Injunction when refused.

Section 42

Injunction to perform negative agreement.

Section 43

Repealed.

Section 44

Repealed.