Sarkar's Specific Relief Act

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Description
It is rare that a young lawyer faces the task of editing a book that is an "authority" on the subject. The daunting task then is to ensure that the book not only maintains its standards but also scales further heights. My task has been greatly lightened by Mr. Sarkar's willingness to put his vast learning and experience at my disposal, while at the same time, encouraging me to feel entirely free to make any changes that I saw fit, I first met Mr. Sarkar about 7 years ago when my (then) firm was briefing him in a matter, I had just returned from Oxford and was smitten by the common law. During the course of the briefing, we discussed the early cases in English law on the subject and I was  astonished by Mr. Sarkar's ability to recollect and dissect intricate nuances of the law. Since then, Mr. Sarkar has been a steady source of guidance in my career - his most important piece of advice being to maintain an academic focus even while practising. Years down the line, and after a short stint as an Assistant Professor at OP Jindal University, I was delighted when he offered me the opportunity to edit this book. I only hope that I have managed to live up to his expectations,

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Contents
Part I - Preliminary
    S. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
    S. 2. Definitions
    S. 3. Savings
    S. 4. Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not
    for enforcing penal laws
Part II - Specific relief
Chapter I - Recovery possession of property
    S. 5. Recovery of specific immovable property
    S. 6. Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property
    S. 7. Recovery of specific movable property
    S. 8. Liability of person in possession, not as owner to deliver to persons
    entitled to immediate possession
Chapter II - Specific performance of contracts
    S. 9. Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract
    S. 10. Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable
    S. 11. Cases in which specific performance of  contracts connected with trusts
    enforceable
    S. 12. Specific performance of part of contract
    S. 13. Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title
    S. 14. Contracts not specifically enforceable
    S. 15. Who may obtain specific performance
    S. 16. Personal bars to relief
    S. 17. Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically
    enforceable
    S. 18. Non-enforcement except with variation
    S. 19. Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title
    S. 20. Discretion as to decreeing specific performance
    S. 21. Power to award compensation in certain Cases
    S. 22. Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc.
    S. 23. Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance
    S. 24. Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for
    specific performance
    S. 25. Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary
    directions to execute settlements
Chapter III - Rectification of instruments
    S. 26. When instrument may be rectified
Chapter IV - Rescission of contracts
    S. 27. When rescission may be adjudged or refused
    S. 28. Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease
    of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed
    S. 29. Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance
    S. 30. Court may require parties rescinding to do equity
Chapter V - Cancellation of instruments
    S. 31. When cancellation may be ordered
    S. 32. What instruments may be partially cancelled
    S. 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
    S. 34. Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right
    S. 35. Effect of declaration
Part III - preventive relief
Chapter VII - Injunctions generally
    S. 36. Preventive relief how granted
    S. 37. Temporary and perpetual injunctions
Chapter VIII - Perpetual injunctions
    S. 38. Perpetual injunction when granted
    S. 39. Mandatory injunctions
    S. 40. Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction
    S. 41. Injunction when refused
    S. 42. Injunction to perform negative agreement
    S. 43. Amendment of act 10 of 1940
    S. 44. Repeal
Subject Index
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Author Details
M.C. Sarkar, Late Subordinate Judge, Bengal
S.C. Sarkar, Judge, Calcutta Small Cause Court
P.C. Sarkar, Advocate, Calcutta High Court
18 Edition By
Sudipto Sarkar, M.A., LL.M. (Cantab.) of Gray’s Inn. Barrister, Senior Advocate, High Court, Calcutta
Aditya Swarup, LL.M. Ph.D., Advocate, Supreme Court of India
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