Stamp Act, 1899, Section 29 -- Sale deed of immovable property - Duty to pay stamp duty is that of vendee and not of vendor...........
Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, Section 115, 116, 111 -- Application seeking separation of share through partition of joint holding situated in village SK - Objection that application not maintainable - (1) because parties had already partitioned holding in a private partition, and (2) objector being put to disadvantage inasmuch as joint land situated in two villages RT and..........
Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, Section 4(3) -- Benami transaction - Burden of proof - Plea of benami can be considered if the person in whose name the property is held is a coparcener in Hindu Undivided Family and if the property is held for the benefit of coparcener - Plea raised that property is purchased benami in the name of adopted son - Adopted son can..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 362 -- 'Deceit' - Means cheating or misleading - One of the ingredients of cheating, as in S.415 IPC is intentionally inducing a person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that person in body, mind,..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1),(d),2(1),(e) -- Consumer - Consumer Dispute - Time share in immovable property - Purchase of - Complainant purchasing one VTS week for 99 years in Mussoorie in a fully furnished `regular' apartment from opposite party - Alleging deficiency in service - Held that neither transaction of purchase of time share in immovable property..........
Consent decree -- Plea that in the family arrangement, suit property had been given to plaintiff about one year prior to the filing of suit - Such plea admitted by father/defendant by filing admission written statement - Decree passed on the basis of allegations made in plaint and admission written statement - Held, such decree does not require registration. (Registration..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 -- Contributory negligence - Means that there is some act or omission on the claimant's part, which has materially contributed to the damage caused, and is of such a nature that it may properly be described as `negligence' - `Negligence' when used in the expression `contributory negligence' means the failure by a person to use reasonable care for..........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 106 -- Notice u/s 106 is not required to be served when period of tenancy is specified in a contract/agreement...........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 111, 106 -- Period of tenancy specified - Tenancy terminates by efflux of time - No requirement of issuance of notice u/s 106 of the Act...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 27 -- Applicability - Failure of wife to raise any claim for the disposal of the property contemplated u/s 27 of the Hindu Marriage Act does not debar wife to raise a dispute about the misappropriation of her property by virtue of complaint before a competent Forum - Petitioner allegedly holding in trust the property belonging to the wife..........
