Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Suit filed by plaintiff claiming natural succession whereas defendants were claiming title over suit property on basis of Will - Plaintiffs only sought formal amendment in respect of cause of action by stating that cause of action will start from death of testatrix and not from date of execution of Will,..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Delay alone is not a ground to deny amendment, when it facilitates adjudication of real controversy without prejudicing opposite party...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - After commencement of trial - Commencement of trial is not an absolute bar, where no prejudice ensues and where amendment helps clarify issues already arising from original pleadings...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Amendment sought only to supply detail to facts that were already part of foundational pleadings and record - It does not alter the nature of suit - Plaintiff is yet to be cross-examined and defendants will have full opportunity to rebut amended pleadings - Application allowed subject to payment of costs..........
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..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Partition suit - Plaintiff came to know about properties that are now proposed to be included in suit schedule properties only after analyzing admission of defendants - Proposed items of properties, could not have been brought on record prior to commencement of trial, despite due diligence by plaintiff -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Recall of a witness - Once plaint schedule is amended, it would be very much essential for plaintiff to re-examine any witness and evidence adduced after re-examination which would assist trial Court in deciding main issue...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of rent petition - Typographical error - Nature of amendment is not substantive but in fact is corrective in nature therefore, amendment cannot be rejected on this ground alone - Typographical mistake/correct provisions of law can always be placed before Court as they do not lead to any dispute on facts and they do..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - After commencement of trial - Explanation that facts were inadvertently missed out or not noted by the counsel is too general and cannot be accepted as sufficient compliance with statutory requirement of due diligence...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement - Suit for specific performance - Proposed amendment attempt to alter the very character of transaction from an agreement to sell into a transaction of loan, by introducing a new context that agreement was executed only as a security to such a loan - It completely changes the foundation of the..........
