Limitation Act, 1963, Article 54 -- Limitation - Suit for specific performance - Time limit is fixed to perform part of contract by 12.12.1979 - However, no notice issued by plaintiff to defendant by expressing his readiness and willingness on or before 12.12.1979 - Admittedly, notice issued on 18.10.1982 - No evidence that defendant received said notice whatsoever..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Readiness and willingness - For relief of specific performance, plaintiff has to prove that all alone and till the final decision of suit, he was ready and willing to perform his part of contract - Mere statement or averment in the plaint for readiness sand willingness would not suffice...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Transfer pendente lite - Once sale agreement in favour of plaintiff is proved, subsequent sale during pendency of suit is hit by doctrine of lis pendens - Suit for specific performance rightly decreed by High Court...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 96, Order 41, Rule 31 -- Agreement to sell - Suit for specific performance - Trial Court partly decreed the suit to the extent of recovery of Rs.40,000/- - Separate appeal or cross objections thereagainst not filed - In the absence of cross appeal or cross objections, first appellate Court could not have recorded a finding that subject..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Suit for specific performance - Valuation of suit and court fee - It is nature of relief claimed which becomes the basis for valuation of a suit - A suit is always to be valued on the reliefs as claimed - Market value of any property cannot be a decisive factor for valuation of suit - Since the relief..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Plaintiff did not give any advance intimation to defendant imploring him to receive the balance consideration and execute the sale deed on the schedule date when he straightway proceed to Sub-Registrar's office or anytime thereafter - Instead, he directly proceeded to file the subject suit - Ex-facie, averments set out in the..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Plaintiff being a Police Constable was mandatorily required to seek permission from his department before entering into an agreement to purchase property of a high value - However, admittedly, he did not seek any such permission from the department - It is not the case of plaintiff that he and defendant were on such close terms..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Readiness and willingness of plaintiff are to be determined from their conduct prior to and subsequent to the filing of suit, as well as from the terms of agreement and surrounding circumstances...........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Co-owners - Execution of agreement by power of attorney holder - Validity - Defendant No.1/power of attorney holder lacked the authority to bind defendant Nos.6 to 8 in the agreement to sell, as GPA did not confer upon him the power to sell the property on behalf of his sisters at the time of agreement, having been impliedly..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Bona fide purchasers - Agreement in question was not executed by all the co-owners - Agreement to sell was incomplete and unenforceable against Defendant Nos.6 to 8, who held a majority share in the property - Enforcing such an agreement would be inequitable - All the co-owners of property transferred the suit property in favour..........
