Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Co-owners - Execution of agreement by power of attorney holder - Validity - Defendant No.1/power of attorney holder lacked the authority to bind defendant Nos.6 to 8 in the agreement to sell, as GPA did not confer upon him the power to sell the property on behalf of his sisters at the time of agreement, having been impliedly..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Bona fide purchasers - Agreement in question was not executed by all the co-owners - Agreement to sell was incomplete and unenforceable against Defendant Nos.6 to 8, who held a majority share in the property - Enforcing such an agreement would be inequitable - All the co-owners of property transferred the suit property in favour..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Co-owners - Plaintiffs failed to demonstrate readiness and willingness to perform their obligations and did not take necessary steps to secure the consent of all co-owners - Granting specific performance would unfairly prejudice the defendants, especially defendant Nos. 6 to 8/co-owners, who never consented to the sale to..........
Stamp Act, 1899, Section 2(15) -- Partition deed - Parties on an oral family settlement not only divided their shares but also taken possession of their respective shares by metes and bounds, then at the time of reducing writing the memorandum of settlement they ceased to be co-owners - Memorandum of settlement held, not treated as instrument which requires stamp duty as..........
Rent and Eviction -- In rent - proceedings, Courts can always take subsequent facts into consideration, which may be relevant...........
Rent and Eviction -- Non-payment of rent - Even on failure to pay rent during pendency of litigation also tenant is bound to be evicted...........
Rent and Eviction -- Non-payment of rent - In any proceeding of eviction of tenant on ground of non-payment of rent, he is not only bound to offer arrears of rent on account of non-payment of which eviction is sought for but also to pay future rent regularly, either at the amount agreed between parties or as fixed by Court...........
Rent and Eviction -- Non-payment of rent - Tenant has failed to comply with the interim order passed by Court regarding payment of rent during pendency of appeal before Supreme Court, and hence is in default - Tenant evicted - However, landlady shall have right to recover arrears of rent from tenant as determined by Supreme Court for the period of default by initiating..........
Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, Section 15 -- Jurisdiction of Small Cause Courts - Small Cause Courts have jurisdiction to entertain a suit by a lessor for the eviction of a lessee from a building after the determination of his lease and for recovery from him of compensation for the use and occupation of that building after such determination of lease...........
Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, Section 15 -- Jurisdiction of Small Cause Courts - Eviction suit - When suit filed by landlord against tenant already stands decreed and opposite party claims to have acquired ownership of property in dispute through a sale-deed executed by its previous owner, adjudication of claim of opposite party becomes incidental to..........
