Hindu Law -- Joint Family property - Alienation by Karta - Karta has right to sell/dispose of/alienate HUF Property, even if a minor of family has undivided interest...........
Hindu Law -- Joint Family property - Mortgage of property by Karta of HUF - Karta is entitled to mortgage HUF property - Son or other member(s) of HUF need not be consenting parties to the mortgage - Post alienation, a coparcenary may challenge the act of Karta, if alienation is not for legal necessity or betterment of estate...........
Hindu Law -- Joint Family Property - Alienation by Karta - Legal necessity - If alienation was made by Karta of Hindu Undivided Family for good and pious purposes, then same will be binding on minors...........
Hindu Law -- Joint Family Property - Alienation by Karta - Legal necessity - Alienees have pleaded legal necessity - Therefore, it is for alienees to prove legal necessity - Alienations were for medical expenses of senior male member of family and thereafter for building the house and family maintenance - Sale deed executed in favour of alienees is valid and prove legal..........
Hindu Law -- Joint Family Property - Partition suit - Plaintiff admitted that suit property is self acquired property of mother/defendant No.1 - No iota of evidence produced by plaintiffs to show that suit property is joint family property - Plaintiffs not entitled for relief of partition as claimed in the plaint - Suit rightly dismissed...........
Hindu Law -- Joint family property - Partition suit - Plaintiff failed to prove that suit property was purchased out of joint family fund and further failed to establish that prior to purchase of suit property there was a nucleus - Suit property is self acquired property of grandfather of plaintiff - Plaintiffs thus, failed to prove that suit property is joint family..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 11 -- Res judicata - Partition suit - Partition being a recurring cause of action would not be hit by doctrine of res judicata - There cannot be any bar to the number of suits which may go on between members of a Joint Hindu Family qua joint property and even between co-owners with regard to joint property...........
Suit for possession -- Possession after partition whether tenant in common or gratuitous licensee - Possession of defendant after partition deed is executed is that of tenant in common, as earlier to partition deed, plaintiff and defendant being sons of deceased were members of Hindu Joint Family - After the death of defendant, property will not pass on to other co-sharer..........
Partition suit -- Hindu Joint Family property - Dispute between adopted son and step sisters - Succession opened up admittedly prior to Hindu Succession Act - Daughter thus, would not be a coparcener at that time - She would not be a legal heir who would take simultaneously with son in view of notional existence of adopted son by virtue of doctrine of relation back -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement - Plea of Joint Hindu Family Property sought to be amended by plea that property devolved through testamentary succession - Will was very much in existence at the time of filing written statement - Plea not inadvertently taken by counsel which is purely an error of counsel - Amendment of written..........
