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Specific Relief Act, 1963 · Chapter I: Recovering Possession Of Property

Section 5 Specific Relief Act: Recovery of specific immovable property

Bare Act text

5. Recovery of specific immovable property.—A person entitled to the possession of specific immovable property may recover it in the manner provided by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).

Text of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 (Act No. 47 of 1963), as amended up to the Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

A person entitled to possession of specific immovable property can recover it. The section says the recovery must follow the manner set out in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. It does not create a separate procedure of its own. It simply confirms the right of a person entitled to possession of land or buildings to recover them through the procedure of that Code.

Chapter I: Recovering Possession Of Property

  1. 5 Recovery of specific immovable property
  2. 6 Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property
  3. 7 Recovery of specific movable property
  4. 8 Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to persons entitled to immediate possession
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