Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 1, Rule 10 -- Impleadment of third party - Eviction suit - Title of ownership of landlord is not relevant in an eviction suit - Landlord and tenant are the only necessary parties in such suit - When a person is neither a necessary party nor a proper party and his presence is not required for any complete and effective adjudication of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement - Amendment sought by defendant to change his character of a tenant which was otherwise as admission made in written statement - Admission made in written statement cannot be permitted to be withdrawn - Even otherwise, tenant by merely denying relationship of landlord and tenant could not avoid..........
Rent and eviction -- Eviction suit - Limitation - Once relationship between parties being a tenant and landlord has been denied by tenants/defendants, who are claiming their ownership over suit property and denied right and title of plaintiff/landlord, period of limitation as applicable for instituting suit under U.P Urban Buildings Act is not applicable...........
Rent and Eviction -- Stay of eviction decree - Determination of compensation/mesne profit - Compensation determined on the basis of purchase price of property - Held, not proper - Compensation/mesne profit has to be determined at the rate at which landlord would have been able to let out the premises and earn rent if tenant had vacated the premises - Impugned order set..........
Rent and Eviction -- Rate of rent - Purchase of building by appellant not disputed - Erstwhile landlord issued a letter of attornment of tenancy indicating rent of Rs.3200/- p.m. addressed to tenant with a copy marked to the appellant - High Court held that this letter of attornment of tenancy was not sufficient to prove the monthly rent to be Rs.3200/- - Held, High Court..........
Rent and Eviction -- Landlord and tenant relationship - Transfer of leased out property - Transferee, in the absence of any contract to the contrary, shall possess all the rights of landlord - Attornment by lessee is not necessary for the transfer of property - Transferee becomes landlord of lessee - Jural relationship between landlord and tenant established. (Transfer of..........
Rent and Eviction -- Bona fide need - Landlord being unemployed required premises for establishing his own business to earn his livelihood - Nothing elicited from cross-examination of landlord to establish that his requirement for personal occupation for said purpose is not genuine and that it is only a ruse for evicting tenants - Even, nothing could be elicited to..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of eviction petition - Landlord by way of amendment sought additional prayer to the effect that vacant possession of suit property may be handed over to him - Such additional prayer will only clarify prayer clause of landlord without any prejudice to tenant - Application allowed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 15, Rule 5 -- Striking off defence - Non-deposit of rent - Purpose and object of O.15.R.5 CPC is to ensure that after determination of lease, while tenant is occupying the suit property during pendency of eviction proceedings, landlord must not be deprived of rent qua said period as it would cause undue loss to him...........
Rent and Eviction -- Denial of relationship between landlord and tenant - Tenant claimed to be owner of suit property on basis of agreement of sale - Agreement of sale does not create a title in favour of purchaser which can be effected only in terms of S.54 of T.P.Act i.e by way of a registered sale deed - Recovery certificate rightly issued in favour of landlord...........
