LAWS OF MALAYSIA
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                                          Act 137
                      SPECIFIC RELIEF ACT 1950
                       Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006
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                                  THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION, MALAYSIA
                                UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT 1968
                                         IN COLLABORATION WITH
                                     PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BHD
                                               2006
                     2                                    Laws of Malaysia                                    ACT 137
                                              SPECIFIC RELIEF ACT 1950
                     First enacted                 ...  ... … ...……1950 (Ordinance No. 29
                                                                                   of 1950)
                     Revised                 ...   ...  ... … ...……1974 (Act 137 w.e.f.
                                                                                   1 July 1974)
                                                             PREVIOUS REPRINTS
                                           First Reprint           …   …   …   …   …               1997
                                           Second Reprint          …   …   …   …   …               2000
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                                  LAWS OF MALAYSIA
                                         Act 137
                               SPECIFIC RELIEF ACT 1950
                                ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
                                           PART I
                                       PRELIMINARY
                  Section
                   1.  Short title
                   2.  Interpretation
                   3.  Savings
                   4.  Specific relief how given
                   5.  Preventive relief
                   6.  Relief not granted to enforce penal law
                                          PART II
                                      SPECIFIC RELIEF
                                          CHAPTER I
                             RECOVERING POSSESSION OF PROPERTY
                                Possession of Immovable Property
                   7.  Recovery of specific immovable property
                   8.  Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property
                                 Possession of Movable Property
                   9.  Recovery of specific movable property
                   10. Liability of person in possession, not as owner, to deliver to person
                       entitled to immediate possession
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                                   CHAPTER II
                       SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACTS
                      Contracts which may be Specifically Enforced
            Section
             11. Cases in which specific performance enforceable
             12. Contracts of which the subject has partially ceased to exist
             13. Specific performance of part of contract where part unperformed is
                 small
             14. Specific performance of part of contract where part unperformed is
                 large
             15. Specific performance of independent part of contract
             16. Bar in other cases of specific performance of part of contract
             17. Purchaser’s rights against vendor with imperfect title
             18. Power to award compensation in certain cases
             19. Liquidation of damages not a bar to specific performance
                     Contracts which cannot be Specifically Enforced
             20. Contracts not specifically enforceable
                              Discretion of the Court
             21. Discretion as to decreeing specific performance
                     For whom Contracts may be Specifically Enforced
             22. Who may obtain specific performance
                    For whom Contracts cannot be Specifically Enforced
             23. Personal bars to the relief
             24. Contracts to sell property by one who has no title, or who is a voluntary
                 settlor
                   For whom Contracts cannot be Specifically Enforced,
                              except with a Variation
             25. Non-enforcement except with variation
                   Against whom Contracts may be Specifically Enforced
             26. Relief against parties and persons claiming under them by subsequent
                 title