Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 11, Rule 1(10), Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 14 -- Production of additional documents - Commercial dispute - Financial statements that defendants want to place reliance upon were not disclosed at the time of filing written statement in Oct 2022 - Explanation that audited financial statements were concluded only in Dec 2023 was..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 39 -- Suit for mandatory injunction seeking direction to defendant to execute sale deed in favour of plaintiff on the basis of agreement to sell in his favour - Plaintiff filed suit for mandatory injunction instead of suit for specific performance as such suit is not maintainable - Furthermore defendant Nos.1 & 2 executed sale deed in..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 10 -- Return of plaint - Plaintiffs seek blanket permanent injunction to restrain defendant bank from interfering with their peaceful possession and enjoyment of property - Suit cannot be maintained since such a blanket prayer for permanent injunction cannot be granted - However, it is always open to plaintiffs to modify the prayer..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 4, 118 -- Promissory note - Cash transaction - There is initial presumption of legally enforceable debt - Onus is on defendant to prove that no such amount was given - Sometimes there may be an occasion where even for a cash transaction, a receipt is taken, but absence of the same would not negate and disprove the stand that cash..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 4, 118 -- Promissory note - Recovery suit - Specific stand of plaintiff that he has paid Rs.30,80,000 to defendant pursuant to promissory note - Onus would be on defendant to dispel such fact - Merely because plaintiff is not able to prove transfer through official modes i.e. through any negotiable instrument or bank transaction..........
Will -- Suspicious circumstances - Testator had four children including plaintiff and defendant No.1 - There is not even a whisper of reasoning as to why testator choose to exclude other three children from bequest and whether any other properties or assets were given to them - It is highly unlikely that a father would grant his entire property to one of his children at..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Sought when case was posted for final arguments - Plaintiff who got prepared the plaint, signed and verified has not shown due diligence at all - If plaintiff had shown due diligence at the time of filing plaint at the very inception in plaint all amendments now sought to be made should have been..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 102 -- Burden of proof - Suit for declaration of title - When plaintiff prays for declaration of his right, title and interest over suit properties, onus for proving title of plaintiff over suit properties lies solely upon plaintiff and he shall prove his title over suit properties independently without depending upon defendant's failure to..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 100 -- Second appeal - Suit for declaration of title and eviction - First Appellate Court held that plaintiff has failed to establish his title and possession over suit properties and plaintiff is not entitled to get decree of declaration of right, title, interest over suit properties and he is also not entitled to get decree of recovery..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 41, Rule 27 -- Additional evidence at appellate stage - Application for leading additional evidence has been considered by Appellate Court without examining the aspect as to whether additional evidence proposed to be led was in consonance with pleadings of defendant and whether such case had been set up by him coupled with the fact that..........
