Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 105 -- Lease - Document's nomenclature, text and context lead to only one conclusion that it was a lease for 99 years - Unilateral cancellation is illegal and it should be understood as having interfered with rights of plaintiff to remain in possession of suit property for 99 years - Suit for declaration of leasehold rights, recovery..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38, 39 -- Suit for permanent and mandatory injunction - Restraining defendant from alienating plot allotted in lieu of acquisition of land - Agreement of sale executed between plaintiff and respondent and during subsistence of said arrangement, land in question came under acquisition and land vested in State - Once acquisition machinery..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 102 -- Burden of proof - In a suit for declaration of title, recovery of possession and mandatory injunction, entire burden lies on plaintiff to prove his valid right and title and also title of his vendor...........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 34, 39 -- Suit for declaration of title, recovery of possession and mandatory injunction - Advocate Commissioner visited the suit schedule property with Mandal Surveyor in the presence of both the parties and their counsels and Advocate Commissioner executed the warrant - Plaintiff not even identified his property in the presence of..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 39 -- Mandatory injunction - Encroachment - Plaintiff failed to make out prima facie case that he has exclusive title over disputed portion - When there is a dispute over title of property by rival parties, plaintiff ought to have amended suit including prayer for declaration of title - Since plaintiff failed to do so, he is not entitled..........
Easements Act, 1882, Section 13 -- Easement of necessity - Land in question was purchased by plaintiff which previously formed part of land owned by predecessors-in-interest of defendants - However, it became a servient tenement upon its declaration as surplus area followed by allotment to Diwana, who happen to be father of vendor of plaintiff - Plaintiffs have no other..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38, 39 -- Permanent prohibitory and mandatory injunction - Land in question is joint - Since, defendants are trying to occupy the portion of joint land and exclude plaintiffs from its use, they are entitled to seek relief of prohibitory injunction and mandatory injunction - They need not seek relief of partition or declaration of title...........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 39 -- Suit for mandatory injunction - Property under unlawful possession of defendant - Failure to seek declaration and recovery of possession is a legal hurdle in grant of any relief to a suitor - Suit rightly dismissed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Deficient Court fee - Suit for declaration and mandatory injunction - Declaration and consequential relief claimed distinct to each other - Injunction claimed is not consequential to the declaration made - Relief of declaration and injunction needs to be valued separately and ad valorem court fee is..........
Court Fees Act, 1870, Section 7(i) -- Ad valorem Court fee - Plaintiff under the garb of suit for declaration with mandatory injunction, is seeking recovery of specified amount of Rs.15 lakhs as damages - It is thus, a suit for money - Ad valorem Court fee as per S.7(i) of the Act is payable according to amount claimed by plaintiff...........
