Specific Relief Act
Master statutory directory covering all 44 sections of Specific Relief Act. Live search by section number or subject matter, and click through to the complete statutory practice guide.
Master statutory directory covering all 44 sections of Specific Relief Act. Live search by section number or subject matter, and click through to the complete statutory practice guide.
| Section | Statutory Provision & Subject | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Sec 1 | Short title, extent and commencement | Guide |
| Sec 2 | Definitions | Guide |
| Sec 3 | Savings | Guide |
| Sec 4 | Specific relief to be granted only for enforcing individual civil rights and not for enforcing penal laws | Guide |
| Sec 5 | Recovery of specific immovable property | Guide |
| Sec 6 | Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property | Guide |
| Sec 7 | Recovery of specific movable property | Guide |
| Sec 8 | Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession | Guide |
| Sec 9 | Defences respecting suits for relief based on contract | Guide |
| Sec 10 | Specific performance in respect of contracts | Guide |
| Sec 11 | Cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts enforceable | Guide |
| Sec 12 | Specific performance of part of contract | Guide |
| Sec 13 | Rights of purchaser or lessee against person with no title or imperfect title | Guide |
| Sec 14 | Power of court to engage experts | Guide |
| Sec 15 | Who may obtain specific performance | Guide |
| Sec 16 | Personal bars to relief | Guide |
| Sec 17 | Contract to sell or let property by one who has no title, not specifically enforceable | Guide |
| Sec 18 | Non-enforcement except with variation | Guide |
| Sec 19 | Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent title | Guide |
| Sec 20 | Expeditious disposal of suits | Guide |
| Sec 21 | Power to award compensation in certain cases | Guide |
| Sec 22 | Power to grant relief for possession, partition, refund of earnest money, etc. | Guide |
| Sec 23 | Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance | Guide |
| Sec 24 | Bar of suit for compensation for breach after dismissal of suit for specific performance | Guide |
| Sec 25 | Application of preceding sections to certain awards and testamentary directions to execute settlements | Guide |
| Sec 26 | When instrument may be rectified | Guide |
| Sec 27 | When rescission may be adjudged | Guide |
| Sec 28 | Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed | Guide |
| Sec 29 | Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance | Guide |
| Sec 30 | Court may require party rescinding to do equity | Guide |
| Sec 31 | When cancellation may be ordered | Guide |
| Sec 32 | What instruments may be partially cancelled | Guide |
| Sec 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 | Guide |
| Sec 34 | Discretion of court as to declaration of status or right | Guide |
| Sec 35 | Effect of declaration | Guide |
| Sec 36 | Preventive relief how granted | Guide |
| Sec 37 | Temporary and perpetual injunctions | Guide |
| Sec 38 | Perpetual injunction when granted | Guide |
| Sec 39 | Mandatory injunctions | Guide |
| Sec 40 | Damages in lieu of, or in addition to, injunction | Guide |
| Sec 41 | Injunction when refused | Guide |
| Sec 42 | Injunction to perform negative agreement | Guide |
| Sec 43 | Amendment of Act 10 of 1940 | Guide |
| Sec 44 | Repeal | Guide |