Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Only 25% of total sale consideration was paid as earnest money on date of agreement to sell which cannot be held to be major part of consideration - Admittedly, possession was never delivered to plaintiff in part performance - Lower Appellate Court erred in granting discretionary relief to plaintiff decreeing suit for possession..........
Partition suit -- Evidence of PW1 and DW1 would reveal that with knowledge of defendants, suit item Nos.1 to 14 have been jointly purchased in the name of plaintiff - When name of plaintiff is found in document relating to suit item Nos.1 to 14, either it has been purchased for his welfare or he has contributed his share amount - Defendants have failed to establish their..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Readiness and willingness are not one but two separate elements - Readiness means capacity of buyer to perform contract, which would include financial position to pay sale consideration - Willingness refers to intention of buyer as a purchaser to perform his part of contract, which is inferred by scrutinising..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Readiness and willingness of buyer to go ahead with sale of property at the time of institution of suit loses its relevance, if buyer is unable to establish that readiness and willingness has continued throughout the pendency of suit...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Barred by limitation - Partition suit - Partition took place way back in the year 1968 as is evident from revenue record entries - Suit filed after a period of 55 years in the year 2023 - Many of family members had executed registered sale deeds in the year 1978 - Suit filed by plaintiffs was a..........
Maintenance and welfare of Parent and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, Section 23 -- Property of father - Eviction of son - Merely because property belongs to senior citizen, it is not necessary or mandatory to pass an order of eviction in every case, particularly when claim of son regarding 1/6th share and cancellation of gifts and sale deeds is pending adjudication before..........
Stamp Act, 1899, Section 33, 35 -- Impounding of document - Unstamped agreement to sell - Plaintiff was claiming relief relying upon agreement of sale and entire suit was based upon said document for recovery of money and damages, same cannot be considered as collateral purpose - Document in question directed to be impounded and only on payment of necessary stamp duty and..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 34, 38 -- Suit for declaration and permanent injunction - Registered partition deed was acted upon, which is admitted by defendant - However, defendant failed to prove that partition deed and both the sale deeds have been forged - Suit rightly decreed in favour of plaintiff...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Suit for cancellation of sale deed - Mere ground or averment in the plaint that executant of a registered document was not of stable mind, cannot be a ground for cancellation of a duly registered document - No prima facie case and balance of convenience is in favour of plaintiff -..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 23 -- Acquisition of land - Compensation - Sale exemplars - Land in question was notified to be acquired in the year 1989 - There is thus, a gap of over a year between acquisition of land in question and allotment of plot which was in close proximity with acquired land - Price of said plot is fixed @ Rs.180 per sq mt - Prices in one year..........
