Partition suit -- Oral partition had taken place between three sons of original owner - One of sons sold certain portions of suit properties - Predecessor of plaintiffs also purchased certain specific portions of suit properties from said son - There is thus, partition between parties and brothers were enjoying the properties as their absolute properties - Suit for..........
Eviction suit by a co-owner -- Plea of partition by tenant - Tenant has no concern with partition of property in dispute and it is open only for co-owners - Tenant has no right to raise issue of partition in eviction suit...........
Partition suit -- Land in question was partitioned between four brothers of father-in-law of plaintiff - Plaintiff categorically stated that her father-in-law was owner of property and even PW2 also deposed to the same - Defendant no.1 failed to prove that land was gifted to him - He held such property as Karta of Joint Family property fallen to share of his deceased..........
Suit for possession -- Possession after partition whether tenant in common or gratuitous licensee - Possession of defendant after partition deed is executed is that of tenant in common, as earlier to partition deed, plaintiff and defendant being sons of deceased were members of Hindu Joint Family - After the death of defendant, property will not pass on to other co-sharer..........
Partition suit -- Hindu Joint Family property - Dispute between adopted son and step sisters - Succession opened up admittedly prior to Hindu Succession Act - Daughter thus, would not be a coparcener at that time - She would not be a legal heir who would take simultaneously with son in view of notional existence of adopted son by virtue of doctrine of relation back -..........
Co-owner -- Rights and liabilities - (i) A co-owner has right and interest in the whole property and also in every parcel and infinitesimal portion of the co-ownership property; (ii) No doubt possession of the joint property by one co-owner is in the eye of law, possession of all even if all but one are actually out of possession; (iii) One co-owner's mere occupation of a..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Co-owners - Injunction - Law is not rigid that in no case injunction can be granted against co-owner - Injunction can be granted at the instance of one co-owner against another co-owner : (a) If one co-owner prevents the other from enjoying the common property, the affected co-owner can certainly approach the Court for..........
Family settlement -- Suit for declaration - Plaintiff alleges that written compromise executed between parties in which defendant has to leave his part of land in favour of plaintiff - However, no reasonable cause has been given in the said document as to why he is leaving the land in favour of plaintiffs - It is not a valid agreement for want of consideration, as no..........
Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Section 14 -- Will - Life interest created in favour of wife by husband during his lifetime - Bequest in favour of wife extended beyond the actual share she would have got had a partition taken place in case husband had died intestate - It is nothing but interest that comes into existence in favour of wife for first time according to volition of..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Mere pendency of suits for cancellation of sale deeds executed by original owner and partition of suit property, does not debar Court from deciding the suit...........
