Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 9 -- Restoration of partition suit - Dismissed in default after passing of preliminary decree - Suit dismissed due to non-appearance of counsel for plaintiff though suit proceedings were being regularly adjourned for last nine years awaiting orders from High Court - Merely non-appearance of plaintiff or his counsel on one occasion..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 9 -- Restoration of suit dismissed in default - Non-filing of application for condonation of delay - Preliminary decree in partition suit passed by trial Court was affirmed upto High Court - Merely on technicalities one should not be made to suffer the rights adjudicated upto level of High Court on the ground of delay or non-filing..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 9 -- Restoration of partition suit - Dismissed in default after passing of preliminary decree - Suit dismissed due to non-appearance of counsel for plaintiff though suit proceedings were being regularly adjourned for last nine years awaiting orders from High Court - Merely non-appearance of plaintiff or his counsel on one occasion..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Partition Act, 1893, Section 3 -- Partition suit - Auction sale - Property cannot be beneficially partitioned into six equal shares and even if it is divided, its value would be diminished as per report of Advocate Commissioner - No objections were filed by any of parties regarding report of Advocate Commissioner - Auction of..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Execution of agreement to sell during pendency of partition suit - There was no encumbrance or dispute over suit property except partition suit - Suit property could still be sold and transferred - Plaintiff was aware of pending suit while executing agreement to sell which was agreed despite pending litigation - Even, plaintiff..........
Partition suit -- In a suit for partition every interested party is deemed to be plaintiff...........
Partition suit -- No bar in passing numerous preliminary decrees in a suit for partition...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 16 -- Legitimacy of children born out of void and voidable marriage - Law as to: (i) In terms of S.16(1) of the Act, a child of a marriage which is null and void u/s 11 of Hindu Marriage Act is statutorily conferred with legitimacy irrespective of whether (a) such a child is born before or after the commencement of Amending Act 1976; (b) a..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Barred by law - Suit for partition and permanent injunction - It is not open for plaintiff to claim property to be ancestral during lifetime of his father and to have share in it - Suit is barred by law - Plaint rejected...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Partition suit - Restraining defendants from interfering with possession of plaintiffs - Right of plaintiff over suit property are still to be established - Possession of plaintiff over suit property also not established - Trial Court rightly dismissed the application after recording prima facie..........
