SECTIONS.

(b) Possession of Moveable Property.

10. Recovery of specific moveable property.

11. Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to person
entitled to immediate possession.

CHAPTER II,

OF THE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS.

(a) Contracts which may be specifically enforced.

12. Cases in which specific performance enforceable.

13. Contracts of which the subject has partially ceased to exist.

14. Specific performance of part of contract where part unperformed is

small.

15. Specific performance of part of contract where part unperformed is

large.

16. Specific performance of independent part of contract.

17. Bar in other cases of specific performance of part of contract.

18. Purchaser's rights against vendor with imperfect title.

19. Power to award compensation in certain cases.

20. Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance.

(b) Contracts which cannot be specifically enforced.

21. Contracts not specifically enforceable.

(c) Of the Discretion of the Court.

22. Discretion as to decreeing specific performance.

(d) For whom Contracts may be specifically enforced.

23. Who may obtain specific performance.

(e) For whom Contracts cannot be specifically enforced.

24. Personal bars to the relief.

25. Contracts to sell property by one who has no title, or who is a

voluntary settler.

(f) For whom Contracts cannot be specifically enforced, except with a

Variation.

26. Non-enforcement except with variation,

(g) Against whom Contracts may be specifically enforced.

27. Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent

title.

SECTIONS.

(h) Against whom Contracts cannot be specifically enforced.

28. What parties cannot be compelled to perform.

(i) The effect of dismissing a Suit for Specific Performance.

29. Bar of suit for breach after dismissal.

(i) Awards and Directions to execute Set/lements.

30. Application of preceding sections to awards and testamentary

directions to execute settlements.

37. Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance.

38. Court may require party rescinding to do equity.

CHAPTER V.

OF THE CANCELLATION OF INSTRUMENTS.

39. When cancellation may be ordered.

40. What instruments may be partially cancelled.

41. Power to require party for whom instrument is cancelled to make

compensation.

CHAPTER VI.

OF DECLARATORY DECREES.

42. Discretion of Court as to declarations of status or right. Bar to such

declaration.

43. Effect of declaration.

SECTIONS.

CHAPTER VII

OF THE APPOINTMENT OF RECEIVERS.

44. Appointment of Receivers discretionary.

Reference to Code of Civil Procedure.

CHAPTER VIII.

OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC DUTIES.

45. Power to order public servants and others to do certain specific acts.

Exemptions from such power.

46. Application how made.

Procedure thereon.

Order in alternative.

47. Peremptory order.

48. Execution of, and appeal from, orders.

49. Costs.

50. Bar to issue of mandamus.

51. Power to frame rules.

PART III.

OF PREVENTIVE RELIEF.

CHAPTER IX.

OF INJUNCTIONS GENERALLY.

52. Preventive relief how granted.

53. Temporary injunctions.

Perpetual injunctions.

CHAPTER X.

OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTIONS.

54. Perpetual injunctions when granted.

55. Mandatory injunctions.

56. Injunction when refused.

57. Injunction to perform negative agreement.

SCHEDULE.

[ENACTMENTS REPEALED.] .

Repealed.

(Part I.-Preliminary. Sec. 1.)

ACT No. I OF 1877.1

[7th February, 1877.]

An Act to define and amend the law relating to certain kinds of
Specific Relief.

WHEREAS it is expedient to define and amend the law relating to certain
kinds of specific relief obtainable in civil suits; It is hereby enacted as
follows:-
:-

PART I.
PRELIMINARY.

1. This Act may be called the Specific Relief Act, 1877.

For the Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1875, Pt. V, p. 258; for the Report of the Select Committee, see ibid, 1876, Pt. V, p. 1445; for discussions in Council, see ibid, 1875, Supplement, pp. 981 and 1025; ibid, 1876, Supplement, p. 1284, and ibid, 1877, Supplement, p. 177.

This Act has been declared in force in the Town of Mandalay by the Upper Burma Laws Act, 1886 (XX of 1886), s. 6, see Burma Code, Ed. 1889, p. 363.

It has been extended, by notification under s. 5 of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (XIV of 1874), printed, General Acts, Vol. II, Ed. 1898, p. 467, to the following Scheduled Districts, namely:

Preamble.

Short title.

ib.,

1878, Pt. II, p. 82.

the Scheduled Districts of the Central Pro

S. 9 has been extended, by notification under s. 5 of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (XIV of 1874), to the Taluks of Bhadrachalam and Rakapilli and the Rampá Country, see Gazette of India, 1879, Pt. I, p. 630; and to Kumaon, Garhwál, the Tarái Parganas, the scheduled portion of the Mirzapur District, and Jaunsar Báwar, see Gazette of India, 1886, Pt. I, p. 452.

S. 9 has been declared in force in British Baluchistan by the Baluchistan Laws Regulation, 1890 (I of 1890), s. 3, printed, Baluchistan Code, Ed. 1890, p. 69, and also in Upper Burma generally (except the Shan States) by the Upper Burma Laws Act, 1886 (XX of 1886), s. 6, printed, Burma Code, Ed. 1889, p. 363.