Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, Section 21 -- Lok Adalat - (1) Every award of the Lok Adalat shall be deemed to be a decree of a civil court and as such it is executable by that Court; (2) The Act does not make out any such distinction between the reference made by a civil court and criminal court; (3) There is no restriction on the power of the Lok Adalat to pass an..........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 34 -- Sanction of mutation - Validity - Respondent No.4 was recorded owner and she sold land in litigation to respondents No.5 and 6 for a valuable consideration of Rs.15,20,000/- by means of registered sale deed - Petitioner did not deny execution and consideration amount of sale deed in question - He claimed that respondent No.4 was..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 144 -- Restitution - Maintainable before the execution Court - Held, a restitution petition u/s 144 CPC is maintainable from an order passed by execution court resulting in delivery of controversial property from possession of judgment debtor to decree holders...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 22 -- Execution of decree - Beyond two years - If execution is beyond two years from date of decree, notice to J.D. is mandatory...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 15, 21(b) -- Appeal - Limitation - Condonation of delay - Sufficient cause - Delay of 289 days in filing appeal - Ground that free copy of the order not supplied by the District Forum as Xerox machine was out of order - On receipt of notice in execution petition petitioner came to know of the order and applied for certified copy of..........
Will -- Execution - Adequate evidence to support the execution and attestation - Will cannot be discarded merely for the reason that witnesses did not belong to the same village or that beneficiaries were strangers to the family...........
Will -- Execution - Proof - There is no requirement of law that attesting witness should be knowing the contents of Will - The only requirement is that the testator of the Will should put his signature or thumb mark as the case may be in presence of two or more witnesses and that the said witnesses also should put their signatures in presence of the testator...........
Will -- Registration - Sufficient time gap between execution of Will and death of testator and even then Will not got registered - Held, not a suspicious circumstance as there is no requirement of law that Will should be registered for being admissible in evidence or for being considered to be a genuine Will...........
Will -- Testator not keeping good health - Inference cannot be drawn that testator was not in sound state of mind at the time of execution of Will...........
Will -- All attesting witnesses were known to testator - Testator residing with her daughter for last 7 years till her death - Plea that Khasra number of suit land were not mentioned in Will and scribe of Will was distant relative of one beneficiary cannot be said to be suspicious circumstances - Nothing on record to show that beneficiaries have taken prominent part in..........
