Agreement to sell -- Direction to register sale deed after passing of decree of specific performance - Decree cannot be held to be unexecutable merely for the reason that suit for partition is pending between coparceners - Moreover, registration of sale deed would not affect right or share of any of other coparceners - Applicant is also a party to suit for partition and..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Ad interim injunction - Co-owners - No pleading with regard to any construction activity initiated by defendants in suit land - Only repair work undertaken by defendant - Does not amount to destruction or damage to joint property - Status quo order rightly set aside - Plaintiff can seek amendment of plaint and to add a..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint at the instance of defendant - A party can seek amendment of his own pleadings - Court cannot permit a party to amend pleadings of other party in any kind of suit - Even in a suit for partition where status of parties is interchangeable the same analogy cannot be applied to the matter of amending the..........
Partition suit -- Suit property is not at all subject matter of earlier suit for partition - There is no severance between first branch under whom defendants are asserting right and second branch under whom plaintiffs are asserting their half share - Moreover, in a partition suit it is a recurring cause of action and if plaintiffs are not allotted any share in earlier..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 100 -- Second appeal - Partition suit - Concurrent findings of Courts below are in record that defendants have failed to prove that they have perfected their title by way of adverse possession - Court therefore, u/s 100 CPC cannot revisit and reassess entire evidence on record - Suit rightly decreed in favour of plaintiff...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 101, 102 -- Burden of proof - Partition suit - Initial burden is on plaintiff to show that suit property was a joint family/ancestral property - After initial discharge of burden, it shifts on defendant to show that property claimed by him was not joint family/ancestral property...........
Hindu Law -- Joint family property - Partition suit - Plaintiff failed to prove that suit property was purchased out of joint family fund and further failed to establish that prior to purchase of suit property there was a nucleus - Suit property is self acquired property of grandfather of plaintiff - Plaintiffs thus, failed to prove that suit property is joint family..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement - At the appellate stage - Partition suit - Defendant sought amendment of written statement with an additional plea that it is only a benami transaction - If amendment is allowed then additional issues have to be framed and additional evidence has also to be adduced on either side - Amendment..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 13 -- Ex parte decree - Setting aside - Partition suit - Defendant was engaged in treatment of his son who died subsequently - Whenever defendant was free, he participated in proceedings - It cannot be said that defendant remained inactive - Defendant had adequate and sufficient reason for not appearing before Court - Ex parte..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 37, 38 -- Suit for permanent injunction and partition - Suit dismissed by trial Court without recording evidence of plaintiff as well as defendant - Suit is in relation to immovable property and valuable rights of parties are to be decided - One opportunity to lead evidence is thus, required to be granted - Impugned order of dismissal of..........
