Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Plaintiff failed to produce any documentary evidence such as receipts or bank records to substantiate the alleged payment of Rs.14,00,000 - During her evidence, she vaguely stated that amount was adjusted from her dowry, but no further proof was submitted in support of her claim - Plaintiff also admitted that..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Once defendant asserted that plaintiff was neither ready nor willing to perform his part, plaintiff was atleast required to prove on record that he had capacity to pay balance sale consideration of more than 23 lakhs on agreed date for execution of sale deed - Plaintiff failed to bring on record any cogent..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Only 25% of total sale consideration was paid as earnest money on date of agreement to sell which cannot be held to be major part of consideration - Admittedly, possession was never delivered to plaintiff in part performance - Lower Appellate Court erred in granting discretionary relief to plaintiff decreeing suit for possession..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Readiness and willingness are not one but two separate elements - Readiness means capacity of buyer to perform contract, which would include financial position to pay sale consideration - Willingness refers to intention of buyer as a purchaser to perform his part of contract, which is inferred by scrutinising..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Readiness and willingness of buyer to go ahead with sale of property at the time of institution of suit loses its relevance, if buyer is unable to establish that readiness and willingness has continued throughout the pendency of suit...........
Stamp Act, 1899, Section 33, 35 -- Impounding of document - Unstamped agreement to sell - Plaintiff was claiming relief relying upon agreement of sale and entire suit was based upon said document for recovery of money and damages, same cannot be considered as collateral purpose - Document in question directed to be impounded and only on payment of necessary stamp duty and..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 16, Rule 1(2) -- Summoning of Tehsildar - Partition suit - Tehsildar cannot be summoned to Court to lead evidence merely on the ground to find out the discrepancy that seems to be in the areas of land purchased by parties in the agreement of sale and the area that was got mutated in the name of parties in the revenue records -..........
Agreement to sell -- Suit property is agreed to be transferred upon payment of balance sale consideration under agreement of sale - Contention that agreement to sell has to be treated as bond, rejected, as when document mentions transfer of rights between parties same cannot be termed as bond...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - Plaintiff contended that he was present before office of sub-Registrar on the date of execution of sale deed but on the verbal assurance of defendant 15 days time was extended for execution of sale deed - Defendant did not execute sale deed even after said 15 days - However, plaintiff did not get his..........
Will -- Proof of - Evidence of two attesting witnesses goes to establish that testator was capable of making Wills as per S.59 of Succession Act - Same was executed in accordance with provisions contained in S.63 of Succession Act and proof of Execution of Will was in accordance with S.68 of Evidence Act - Executor although has alleged that testator was not in sound state..........
