BARE ACT WITH SHORT NOTES The Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 Of 1963) Universal LexisNexis  (PaperBook, Universal LexisNexis)

The Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 of 1963) as amended by The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (34 of 2019) (w.e.f. 31-10-2019) and The Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018 (18 of 2018) (w.e.f. 1-10-2018). THE SPECIFIC RELIEF ACT, 1963 CONTENTS The Specific Relief (Amendment Act, 2018 (15 of 2015) Introduction Section 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 law PART 11 SPECIFIC RELIEF CHAPTER I RECOVERING POSSESSION OF PROPERTY 5. Recovery of specific immovable property 6. Suit by person dispossessed of 7. immovable property 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 Specific performance in respect of contracts 10. 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 14. Contracts not 14A. Contracts which cannot be specifically enforced specifically enforceable Power of court to engage experts Persons for or against whom contracts may be 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 Substituted performance of contracts, etc. 20. Substituted performance of contract 20A. Special provisions for contract relating to infrastructure project 208. Special Courts 20C. Expeditious disposal of suits compensation in certain 21. Power to award 1 cases specifically enforced