Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 100 -- Second appeal - Court has power and jurisdiction to suit or non-suit a party on adduced pleadings, issues and evidence, but not on a totally new and unexpected case, more particularly at the stage of S.100 CPC...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11, Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Section 6 -- Right of daughter - Partition suit - Suit lands cannot be said to be coparcenary property of plaintiff - Those are coparcenary property of her mother - But mother is not coming forward claiming partition - Plaintiff has not acquired any birth right - Therefore, there is no unobstructed..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 102 -- Burden of proof - Adverse possession - Defendants have raised plea of adverse possession as such burden is on them to prove affirmatively that bar of limitation prescribed u/art 65 of Limitation Act, viz. 12 years, is applicable - But, limitation of 12 years begins when possession of defendants would become adverse to that of plaintiff -..........
Limitation Act, 1963, Article 110 -- Limitation - Partition suit - Plea of ouster - If the Co-sharer in possession, raises the plea of ouster or bar u/art 110 of the Act, it is incumbent on such co-sharer to prove that exclusion was to the knowledge of other co-sharers - Exclusion should be proved by tangible evidence - One cannot infer exclusion from enjoyment of..........
Partition -- Plaintiff had no knowledge about execution of partition deed of 1990 as alleged by defendants - Moreover, plaintiff is not a party to said partition deed - Courts below has rightly held that defendants failed to establish that plaintiff has received a sum of Rs.10,000 towards her share - As regarding plea of ouster taken by defendants, in the absence of..........
Agreement to sell -- Suit for specific performance - Execution of sale agreement and payment of advance amount itself is doubtful - Relief of specific performance not granted - Plaintiff would not be entitled to any relief, unless and until such relief was asked for by plaintiff - A decree directing return of advance amount without any alternative prayer for the return of..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 34, 38 -- Suit for declaration on basis of adverse possession and permanent injunction - Plaintiff has relied upon agreement to sell to prove her ownership over suit property - However admittedly, said agreement was not proven on record in terms of S.64 of Evidence Act - Original agreement was never produced by plaintiff - Even no..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 4, 118 -- Promissory note - Recovery suit - Cash transaction - Merely because a person is not able to prove transfer through official modes i.e. through any negotiable instrument or bank transaction would not lead to conclusion that such amount was not paid through cash, especially when there was a categorical statement to this..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 4, 118 -- Promissory note - Recovery suit - Specific stand of plaintiff that he has paid Rs.30,80,000 to defendant pursuant to promissory note - Onus would be on defendant to dispel such fact - Merely because plaintiff is not able to prove transfer through official modes i.e. through any negotiable instrument or bank transaction..........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 54 -- Sale - Agreement to sell does not confer a valid title on the plaintiff as it is not a deed of conveyance as per S.54 of the Act - At best, it only enables plaintiff to seek specific performance for execution of a sale deed and does not create an interest or charge on the suit property...........
