THE SPECIFIC RELIEF ACT, 1963, ACT NO. 47 OF 1963, 13th December, 1963. An Act to define and amend the law relating to certain kinds of specific relief.
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| Sections | Particulars |
| Part I | Preliminary |
| 1 | Short title, extent and commencement |
| 2 | Definitions |
| 3 | Saving |
| 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 persons 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 | Defense respecting suits for relief based on contract |
| Contracts Which Can Be Specifically Enforced | |
| 10 | Cases in which specific performance of contract enforceable |
| 11 | Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trust 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 | Amendment of Act 10 of 1940 [Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974 (56 of 1974)] |
| 44 | Repeal [Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974 (56 of 1974)] |