Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Joint property - Agreement executed by defendant and his brother and accepted earnest money jointly - Acceptance of part of sale consideration by one of them subsequently - Cannot be said to be in that person's individual capacity - It will bind both of them - They two are not separate legal entities - No overt act on part of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Ad interim injunction - Co-owners - No pleading with regard to any construction activity initiated by defendants in suit land - Only repair work undertaken by defendant - Does not amount to destruction or damage to joint property - Status quo order rightly set aside - Plaintiff can seek amendment of plaint and to add a..........
Release deed or conveyance deed -- Surrender of right in favour of a co-owner in a joint property would be a release whereas a surrender of right in favour of a third party, having no right in the property which is surrendered then such surrender will be a conveyance - Enlargement of an existing right in an unpartitioned property of a family member at the end of a..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 34, 38 -- Suit for declaration and permanent injunction - Surrender of share, of a consideration of Rs.1.50 lakhs, in immovable property by one of the joint owners by unregistered deed - Any interest in immovable property, upwards of the value of Rs.100/- including surrender of a share can only be effected through a registered instrument..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Restraining co-sharer from raising construction - Co-sharer, who is in exclusive possession of a joint holding, cannot be restrained from raising construction on that portion of the joint holding of which he is in exclusive possession - Order allowing defendant to raise construction subject to..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Road Accident - Delay in disposal of claim cases - Directions issued: (i) On receiving the intimation regarding road accident by use of a motor vehicle at public place, SHO concerned shall take steps as per S.159 of the M.V. Amendment Act; (ii) After registering the FIR, I.O shall take recourse as specified in the M.V. Amendment..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 34 -- Common intention - S.34 IPC makes a co-perpetrator who had participated in the offence equally liable on the principle of joint liability...........
Will -- Joint Will or mutual Will - Death of one of testators - Property left out by deceased testator included in Will alone would stand bound by disposition made therein - It would not operate as against property of other testator who is alive till his/her death - Surviving testator will have every right to deal with property till his/her death irrespective of whether..........
Court Fees Act, 1870, Section 7 -- Ad valorem Court fee - Suit for declaration as well as joint possession and permanent injunction - Plaint nowhere establishes a clear cut ouster or abandonment of possession of plaintiff from suit property - Suit property is claimed to be joint between parties - Plaintiff thus, cannot be called upon to pay Court fee on market value of..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 101, 102 -- Burden of proof - Partition suit - Initial burden is on plaintiff to show that suit property was a joint family/ancestral property - After initial discharge of burden, it shifts on defendant to show that property claimed by him was not joint family/ancestral property...........
