Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38 -- Suit for injunction - Conduct of defendant in instituting a separate suit after grant of injunction in favour of plaintiff, while concealing earlier injunction order and securing an ex parte order which was subsequently vacated, lends support to inference that defendants attempted to disturb settled possession of plaintiff rather..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38 -- Suit for injunction simpliciter relating to immovable property - Determinative factor is possession of parties on the date of institution of suit...........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 34 -- Suit for declaration - Documents are the foundation of litigation...........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 123, Registration Act, 1908, Section 17, 49 -- Unregistered gift deed - Suit for declaration on the basis of unregistered gift deed is nullity in law u/s 123 of T.P. Act, as validity of said document is void ab initio and document is not admissible in evidence u/s 49 of Registration Act...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11(d) -- Rejection of plaint - Suit for declaration based on unregistered gift deed is nullity in law u/s 123 of T.P. Act - Cause of action cannot arise on basis of void document - Plaint rejected...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Question of delay in moving an application for amendment should be decided not by calculating period from the date of institution of suit alone but by reference to stage to which hearing in suit has proceeded - Pre-trial amendments are allowed more liberally then those which are sought to be made..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Suit for declaration of ownership - Amendment sought only to incorporate a relief which was based on a cause of action which arose after filing of suit - Question of possession has to be considered and decided after evidence is led by both the parties - Only issues have been framed and no evidence led by..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 11, Rule 21(1) -- Dismissal of suit U.O.11.R.21(1) CPC - Until and unless wilful default and obstinacy or contumacy is shown, powers U.O.11.R.21(1) CPC cannot be exercised by Court...........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 105 -- Lease - Document's nomenclature, text and context lead to only one conclusion that it was a lease for 99 years - Unilateral cancellation is illegal and it should be understood as having interfered with rights of plaintiff to remain in possession of suit property for 99 years - Suit for declaration of leasehold rights, recovery..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 9 -- Rejoinder - Proposed rejoinder is intended only to specifically traverse and rebut new factual assertions introduced in written statement - Bar against raising a new case through subsequent pleadings is not attracted - Issues in suit are yet to be framed and both parties will have adequate opportunity to lead evidence -..........
