Agreement to sell -- Registered agreement with possession - Entire stamp duty leviable on sale consideration paid at the time of registration of agreement - Stamp duty was, thus, not leviable on the sale deed executed pursuant to the agreement to sell with possession as no stamp duty can be twice levied on the sale consideration with respect to one transfer...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6A -- Counter claim - Possession of plaintiff over suit property is not disputed - Necessary consequences of declaring general power of attorney and lease deed executed in favour of plaintiff was restoration of possession - However, defendant failed to seek consequential relief of restoration of possession - Counter claim seeking..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Restraining defendants from alienating or encumbering suit property - Plaintiffs were neither in possession of land nor produced any document to establish that they had ever exercised their rights of ownership over suit property - Even otherwise, since the plaintiffs are attempting to..........
Mutation -- Challenge as to - Mutation is entered by revenue authorities in order to upgrade the revenue record - This is a natural consequence of change of ownership either by way of any written instrument like sale deed, gift deed or on account of succession by virtue of natural succession or Will - It was thus, not necessary to formally challenge mutation in a suit for..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Plaintiff claims to be absolute owner of suit property having acquired the same under registered gift deed from her husband - However, there is no reference to source of title of husband of plaintiff as per said gift deed - Even, there is no other document filed to show that husband of plaintiff or..........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 49, Proviso -- Un-registered lease deed - Can be shown to prove nature and character of possession but it cannot be used to prove the terms of lease and unregistered lease deed is admissible in evidence for collateral purpose for proving possession of a party...........
Possession -- Title derived from `S' by virtue of sale deed - Once `S' was not found in possession of suit property he could not deliver possession of suit land to his vendees...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 100 -- Second appeal - Suit for declaration, permanent injunction and possession - Plaintiff filed the suit on the basis of sale deed executed by husband of defendant in his favour - However, Courts below recorded a finding that case of plaintiff is surrounded by doubtful circumstances - Moreover, plaintiff ought to have filed suit..........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 17, 49 -- Unregistered exchange deed - Parties mutually exchanged their respective properties orally and taken over possession of respective properties after exchange - Document in question is evidencing a past transaction of exchange of properties between parties - For the purpose of proving collateral transaction of delivery of possession..........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 53A -- Protection u/s 53-A of the Act - Agreement to sell - Un-registered agreement was entered into in between defendant and original owner - Though defendant was put in possession but he failed to pay balance sale consideration and as such no sale deed was executed in his favour - Defendant not entitled to have protection u/s 53-A..........
