Specific Relief Act, 1963

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Model Specimen of Specific Performance of Contract
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Contents
PART I—PRELIMINARY
1.    Short title, extent and commencement
2.    Definitions
3.    Savings
4.    Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for
        enforcing penal laws
PART II—SPECIFIC RELIEF
Chapter I : Recovering Possession of Property
5.    Recovery of specific immovable property
6.    Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property
7.    Recovery of specific movable property
8.    Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to
        immediate possession
Chapter II : Specific Performance of Contracts
9.    Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract
10.  Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable
11.  Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable
12.  Specific performance of part of contract
13.  Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title
Contracts which cannot be specifically enforced 
14.  Contracts not specifically enforceable
Persons for or against whom contracts may be specifically enforced
15.   Who may obtain specific performance
16.   Personal bars to relief
17.   Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable
18.   Non-enforcement except with variation
19.   Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title 
Discretion and powers of Court
20.   Discretion as to decreeing specific performance
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
26.   When instrument may be rectified
Chapter IV : Rescission of Contracts
27.  Where 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
37.   Temporary and perpetual injunctions
Chapter VIII : Perpetual Injunctions
38.   Perpetual injunction when granted
39.   Mandatory injunctions
40.   Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction
41.   Injunction when refused
42.   Injunction to perform negative agreement
43.   [Repealed]
44.   [Repealed]
Model specimen—Specific Performance of Contract
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