Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Amendment sought only to supply detail to facts that were already part of foundational pleadings and record - It does not alter the nature of suit - Plaintiff is yet to be cross-examined and defendants will have full opportunity to rebut amended pleadings - Application allowed subject to payment of costs..........
Stamp Act (Bihar Amendment) Act, 1988, Section 9A -- Registration of instrument - Requirement of recommendation by Assistant Registrar, Cooperative Society as a pre-condition for registering an instrument u/s 9-A of the Act is an irrelevant consideration leading to illegality in action - Such a pre-condition is clearly superfluous and unnecessary, as once a cooperative..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Partition suit - Amendment sought to include some properties - Plaintiff in a partition suit may not be aware of all properties sought to be partitioned of common ancestral properties and if during pendency of case, acquire such knowledge about some more properties that need to be partitioned or included..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Partition suit - Plaintiff came to know about properties that are now proposed to be included in suit schedule properties only after analyzing admission of defendants - Proposed items of properties, could not have been brought on record prior to commencement of trial, despite due diligence by plaintiff -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Recall of a witness - Once plaint schedule is amended, it would be very much essential for plaintiff to re-examine any witness and evidence adduced after re-examination which would assist trial Court in deciding main issue...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of rent petition - Typographical error - Nature of amendment is not substantive but in fact is corrective in nature therefore, amendment cannot be rejected on this ground alone - Typographical mistake/correct provisions of law can always be placed before Court as they do not lead to any dispute on facts and they do..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - After commencement of trial - Explanation that facts were inadvertently missed out or not noted by the counsel is too general and cannot be accepted as sufficient compliance with statutory requirement of due diligence...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement - Suit for specific performance - Proposed amendment attempt to alter the very character of transaction from an agreement to sell into a transaction of loan, by introducing a new context that agreement was executed only as a security to such a loan - It completely changes the foundation of the..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement-cum-counter claim - Amendment is with respect to events after disposal of suit by trial Court and after disposal of appeals by High Court - Therefore, it does not stand to reason that amendment ought to have been carried out prior to commencement of trial - Amendment rightly allowed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Courts should try merits of case that come before them and should consequently allow all amendments that may be necessary for determining the real question in controversy between parties provided it does not cause injustice or prejudice to other side...........
