Co-sharer -- Injunction - Co-sharer in physical possession of a specific portion of joint land, whose possession is admitted, cannot be restrained from raising construction thereupon - However, any construction raised by the respondents over their exclusive portion, shall remain subject to the final outcome of the partition proceedings...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Stay application - Suit for mandatory and permanent injunction - No material on record to show that defendants have encroached upon or merged any area beyond their admitted possession - Since suit for partition is pending and defendants are in exclusive possession of their respective portions - Any construction raised by..........
Partition suit -- Mesne profits - If a prima facie case is made out to take a view that plaintiff has share in property and defendant is deriving income from suit property to deprivation of plaintiff, then in such cases, Court as an interim measure can direct defendant in suit either to share or deposit profits derived from suit property subject to result of suit -..........
Partition suit -- Mesne profits - Application seeking interim mesne profits or profits gets more credence in appeals against decree for partition or in final decree proceedings where plaintiff established that property is joint family property and defendant is exclusively deriving income from suit property though plaintiff is in constructive joint possession of the same...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Partition suit - Amendment sought to include some properties - Plaintiff in a partition suit may not be aware of all properties sought to be partitioned of common ancestral properties and if during pendency of case, acquire such knowledge about some more properties that need to be partitioned or included..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Partition suit - Plaintiff came to know about properties that are now proposed to be included in suit schedule properties only after analyzing admission of defendants - Proposed items of properties, could not have been brought on record prior to commencement of trial, despite due diligence by plaintiff -..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38, 39 -- Co-owners - Suit for permanent or mandatory injunction - Not maintainable against another co-owner, notwithstanding the fact that different co-owners may be in a separate actual possession of distinct portions - In such circumstances, the only appropriate and legally permissible course open to plaintiff was to seek partition of..........
Hindu Law -- Joint family property - Alienation by Karta - Alienation in favour of defendant Nos.13 & 14 was for the purpose of legal necessity - It is not denied that Defendant No. 1 was Karta of joint Hindu family and agreements for sale as well as sale deed was executed by him - During his life time, father of plaintiff did not object to alienations - Sale was thus,..........
Partition suit -- Suit property alienated by Karta in favour of defendant Nos.13 & 14 for legal necessity - Plaintiff failed to seek any specific relief qua alienation in favor of defendant Nos.13 & 14 - In the absence of any such relief sought in respect of alienation in favour of said defendants, suit is liable to be dismissed...........
Co-sharers -- Un-registered memorandum of partition - Memorandum of partition was acted upon and pursuant thereto part of suit land was sold by one of co-owner - Plaintiff did not challenge said sale deeds for a period of nearly 20 years and filed civil suit only in 1994 - Since the memorandum of partition was acted upon and remained unassailed for nearly two decades and..........
