Specific Relief Act, 1963

This 2025 edition of The Specific Relief Act, 1963 (Act 47 of 1963) sets out India’s complete statutory code on equitable civil remedies—specific performance, injunctions, declarations, and allied reliefs. It integrates every current amendment, including the landmark Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018 (Act 18 of 2018, w.e.f. 1-8-2018 & 1-10-2018) and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (Act 34 of 2019, w.e.f. 31-10-2019), ensuring total conformity with today’s legal framework.

The Act comprehensively regulates:
• Specific performance of contracts and the 2018-introduced option of substituted performance
• Preventive relief through temporary, perpetual, and mandatory injunctions—including new bars for strategic infrastructure projects
• Declaratory decrees confirming rights or legal status
• Rectification, rescission, and cancellation of instruments, plus recovery of possession of property
• Discretionary principles, limitations, and defences governing the grant or denial of relief

Presented without annotations, commentary, or case law, this Bare Act offers the verbatim statutory text—indispensable for precise legal practice and focused academic study.

This edition is particularly suitable for:
• AIBE aspirants and law students specialising in contract remedies and equity
• Judicial-service, civil-service, and other competitive-exam candidates who need an unaltered statute
• Practising advocates, in-house counsel, and dispute-resolution professionals handling commercial, property, or infrastructure matters
• Academicians, researchers, and policy analysts evaluating India’s evolving equitable-relief regime

By providing the exact legislative language—free of editorial additions—this edition guarantees clarity, authenticity, and reliability for courtroom citation, classroom instruction, and rigorous scholarly work.