Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 37, Rule 4 -- Summary suit for recovery - Ex parte decree - Setting aside - Summons were duly served on the address given by appellants lawyer - Procedure prescribed U.O.37 CPC was adhered to - O.37.R.4 CPC is very categorical that power enshrined therein has to be exercised only on special circumstances - No special..........
Agreement to sell -- Breach of agreement - Refund of advance amount - Execution and contents of agreement unequivocally admitted by defendant in his evidence - Case projected by defendant that plaintiff was aware of encumbrance on suit property from inception was nothing but an afterthought, devised solely to defeat plaintiff's legitimate claim for refund - More so, upon..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Suit filed by plaintiff claiming natural succession whereas defendants were claiming title over suit property on basis of Will - Plaintiffs only sought formal amendment in respect of cause of action by stating that cause of action will start from death of testatrix and not from date of execution of Will,..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 11, Rule 12, 13, 14, 15 -- Application for rejection of plaint and production of documents - Court is entitled to proceed with O.7.R.11 CPC application without compelling production of additional documents at that stage - If, on conclusion of hearing application U.O.7.R.11 CPC, suit survives,..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 9 -- Jurisdiction of civil Court - Applicability of provisions of J&K Agrarian Reformers Act - Issue that falls for determination is as to whether defendant is entitled to resume suit land on the basis that mutation u/s 7 of J&K Agrarian Reformers Act stands attested in his favour way back in the year 1987 - Plaintiffs are resisting..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38, 39 -- Suit for permanent and mandatory injunction - Restraining defendant from alienating plot allotted in lieu of acquisition of land - Agreement of sale executed between plaintiff and respondent and during subsistence of said arrangement, land in question came under acquisition and land vested in State - Once acquisition machinery..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 9, Rule 13 -- Ex parte divorce decree against husband - Setting aside - Service of summons - Merely on account of the fact that husband did not produce any oral evidence to support his application U.O.9.R.13 r/w S.151 CPC would not be the only ground to non-suit him, more so when facts of case are conspicuous to infer that..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 3 -- Evidence - Conversation between parties during process of mediation, cannot form basis or evidence for disposal of suit...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 10 -- Stay of subsequent suit - Object of S.10 CPC is to prevent Courts of concurrent jurisdiction from simultaneously proceeding with parallel suits involving issues that are directly and substantially the same...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 10 -- Stay of subsequent suit - Statutory expression "matter in issue is directly and substantially in issue" signifies an issue that forms the core of dispute, as distinguished from questions that arise merely incidentally or collaterally - Common property forming the subject matter of litigation does not by itself, attract bar of S.10..........