Adverse Possession -- Possession of father of plaintiff or plaintiff is permissive - It cannot be said that plaintiff was ever in hostile and open possession of property in dispute - Plea of adverse possession rejected...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 23, Rule 1 -- Abandonment of part of claim - Partition suit - Plaintiff admitted in plaint that item-II of suit property is a joint family property - He cannot now turn around and say that he has no intention to include said property and has no intention to proceed with the same - Affidavit is silent for what reasons plaintiff intends to..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 16, Rule 14 -- Summoning of official witnesses alongwith relevant revenue record - Revenue record sought to be summoned is material and bears directly upon adjudication of petitioner's claim of ownership - Application cannot be declined on the ground that plaintiff has failed to furnish list of witnesses within time prescribed and had..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 38, Rule 5 -- Attachment before judgment - Attachment before judgment is only an ancillary, protective relief to secure decree subject to adjudication of independent claims and cannot prejudice pre-existing rights or confer any substantive advantage upon plaintiff beyond securing satisfaction of decree...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 38, Rule 5 -- Attachment before judgment - Registered sale deed in favour of original applicant was executed prior to institution of suit - In such circumstances, essential condition for invoking attachment before judgment U.O.38.R.5 CPC that property belongs to defendant on the date of institution of suit is absent - Plaintiff's remedy,..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38 -- Permanent injunction - When main relief of cancellation of sale deed of disputed property is not granted to plaintiff, then even consequential relief of permanent injunction cannot be granted to him against true owner of disputed property, who has acquired its ownership on the basis of said sale deed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Barred by limitation - Suit for recovery of damages for defamation - Period of limitation u/art 75 of Limitation Act would not get extended after expiry of one year from date of publication of libel - Suit is not within limitation prescribed u/art 75 of Limitation Act - Plaintiff even if proves all..........
Partition suit -- Mesne profits - If a prima facie case is made out to take a view that plaintiff has share in property and defendant is deriving income from suit property to deprivation of plaintiff, then in such cases, Court as an interim measure can direct defendant in suit either to share or deposit profits derived from suit property subject to result of suit -..........
Partition suit -- Mesne profits - Application seeking interim mesne profits or profits gets more credence in appeals against decree for partition or in final decree proceedings where plaintiff established that property is joint family property and defendant is exclusively deriving income from suit property though plaintiff is in constructive joint possession of the same...........
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..........
