Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 23, Rule 3, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 12, Rule 6, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 20, Rule 18(1) -- Partition suit - Parties resolved dispute qua some of the properties - Court to draw partial decree accordingly in view of the terms and conditions arrived at between parties - So far as remaining properties for which no settlement..........
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...........
Partition suit -- Joint property - Correctness of shares of parties to suit as recorded in jamabandi of suit property not challenged by defendants - Parties thus, entitled to their respective shares in suit property as per entries in Jamabandi...........
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..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 9 -- Restoration of suit dismissed in default - Partition suit - Plaintiffs have assigned a reasonable cause that due to having talks of compromise between parties and being out of city, they could not appear for their evidence - Application for restoration was well within limitation from date of having knowledge of dismissal of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 41, Rule 27 -- Additional evidence at appellate stage - Partition suit - Un-registered prior partition deed is not required for effective adjudication of controversy between parties, as same cannot be admitted in evidence - Even, averments made in affidavit filed in support of application does not satisfy ingredients enumerated under..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11(d) -- Rejection of plaint - Barred by limitation - Partition suit - Issue of limitation is a mixed question of law and facts and therefore, same is required to be considered after looking into the evidence that could be adduced by parties in a full dressed trial - Suit for primary relief of partition and separate possession..........
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 7, Rule 11, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 23, Rule 1 -- Rejection of plaint - Bar of subsequent suit - Earlier suit for partition dismissed as withdrawn - Cause of action for a suit for partition is a recurring one and where partition suit is dismissed, it does not bar filing of a subsequent suit, as even after dismissal of former..........
Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953, Section 9A(2) -- Partition - Decree for partition passed by civil Court when three brothers were alive - Share of one brother `S' who died issueless - Question as to said `S' died before or after other brother `R' was not decided by Civil Court in partition suit and it was raised only before consolidation authorities -..........
