KINDS OF RELIEF IN Specific Relief Act 1963

Your neighbour builds a wall two feet into your plot. Your tenant refuses to leave. A vendor signs a sale agreement and then stalls. A forged sale deed is lying in the registrar’s office with your name on it. Four different problems, and a clerk would send you to four different prayers in a plaint. This topic is the map that tells you which prayer belongs to which problem.

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The Specific Relief Act 1963 offers seven kinds of relief: recovery of possession, specific performance, rectification, rescission, cancellation, declaration and injunction; choosing the right one depends on what has gone wrong with the right or the document.

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