Stamp Act, 1899, Section 2(10), Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 5 -- Explanation (As inserted by U.P.Act, 1981 - Conveyance - Deed of Dissolution of partnership - Consequential deed of release - Deed of release is only a sort of acknowledgement of title of partners to immovable properties conferred on them by deed of dissolution - It cannot be treated as conveyance..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 101, 102 -- Suit for possession based on title - Once plaintiff is able to create a high degree of probability so as to shift the onus on the defendant it is for the defendant to discharge his onus and in the absence thereof, the burden of proof lying on plaintiff shall be held to have been discharged so as to amount to proof of the plaintiff's..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 1, Rule 10 -- Impleadment of a party - Suit for specific performance - Party that establishes some semblance of title or interest in suit property can be impleaded as a party even in a suit for specific performance - Such party is thus, proper and necessary party for effectual and complete adjudication of suit - Application rightly..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 35 -- Execution - Decree for specific performance - Delivery of possession - Decree attained finality and sale deed of subject land already executed in favour of DH - Once title has been conveyed denial of possession would render decree itself ineffective and frustrate the very purpose of granting specific performance...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 14, Rule 1, 2 -- Issues - Omission to frame issues - Suit for specific performance - Suit was dismissed for lack of title in favour of defendant - No issues or points for determination were framed for the same - Plaintiff at no point was given an opportunity to lead evidence on the same - In the absence of any issues and especially in the..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Defence material at quashing stage - Consideration of defence material including sale deeds or other title documents at the stage of S.156(3) Cr.P.C. would necessarily involve adjudication on disputed questions of fact and would amount to conducting a mini-trial which is wholly impermissible...........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 34 -- Suit for declaration of title and possession - Mere fact that defendant had effected mutation over suit property is not a ground to deny the relief to plaintiff, particularly when mutation was effected without prior notice to plaintiff...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 41, Rule 27 -- Additional evidence at appellate stage - When plaintiffs themselves asserted title on basis of long and continuous possession through their predecessors, subsequent attempt to introduce General Land Register (GLR) in the form of additional evidence at appellate stage assumes little legal significance - Once the trial had..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 102 -- (Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, S.105) - Burden of proof - Once plaintiffs asserted that they derived valid title to suit property through their forefathers, burden lay squarely upon them to substantiate such claim by producing cogent title deeds in support thereof...........
Maintenance and welfare of Parent and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, Section 22 -- Property of senior citizen - Disputes as to title and possession of suit property - Authorities under the Act are not meant to adjudicate upon disputes relating to title and possession of immovable properties, more particularly when parties are not related to each other - Such disputes can only..........
