Bare Acts

The Specific Relief Act, 1963

1963 · In force · synced 04 Jul 2026

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

I — SPECIFIC RELIEF 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

II — SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS

9.Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract

II — CONTRACTS WHICH CAN BE SPECIFICALLY ENFORCED

10.Specific performance in respect of contracts 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

II — CONTRACTS WHICH CANNOT BE SPECIFICALLY ENFORCED

14.Contracts not specifically enforceable 14A.Power of court to engage experts

II — 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 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

II — ENFORCEMENT OF AWARDS AND DIRECTIONS TO EXECUTE SETTLEMENTS

25.Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements

III — RECTIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS

26.When instrument may be rectified

IV — RESCISSION OF CONTRACTS

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

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

VI — DECLARATORY DECREES

34.Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right 35.Effect of declaration

VII — PREVENTIVE RELIEF INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY

36.Preventive relief how granted 37.Temporary and perpetual injunctions

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

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