Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 1, Rule 10 -- Impleadment of a party - Plaintiff filed a suit for declaration of ownership on basis of sale deed and also challenged the subsequent sale deed in favour of respondent no.1 - Application for impleadment of another buyer of subsequent sale deed was filed after 8 years of filing of suit - On the date of filing application..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 26, Rule 1, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 50 -- Suit for partition - Issue is whether the relationship between the deceased `D' and the plaintiffs' mother can be presumed to be a valid marital union, in the absence of formal documentary proof - The defendants, except for denying the marriage between the deceased `D' and the plaintiffs'..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 1, Rule 10, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Impleadment of a party - Even in an application U.O.1.R.10 CPC for addition of a party, O.6.R.17 CPC is required to be followed for the purpose of consequential amendment(s) - When main purpose is to bring change in the nature of relief in the suit, plaintiff ought to have stated..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Barred by limitation - Suit for declaration that Will, sale deed and gift deed is null and void - Plaintiff admittedly had knowledge of Will dated 08.08.1962 - Contention of plaintiff that cause of action accrued in 2023 is not true - In the year 2024 by way of suit, he wanted to challenge so called will..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 96 -- Appeal - Maintainability - Order rejecting application U.O.21.R.97 CPC filed against execution of eviction decree passed in SCC suit - Said order is revisable u/s 25 of Provincial Small Cause Courts Act - Appeal u/s 96 CPC is not maintainable against such an order - Appeal dismissed...........
Practice and Procedure -- SCC suit - Title of parties cannot be decided in a SCC suit and only relationship of landlord and tenant is to be seen between parties...........
Easements Act, 1882, Section 13 -- Easement of necessity - To establish an easement right u/s 13 of the Act, one must plead and prove that suit property is a servient tenement to property owned by other side as dominant tenement - Additionally, plaintiff must plead and prove to establish that both tenements were previously held together and a single tenement's severance..........
Easements Act, 1882, Section 13 -- Easement of necessity - Land in question was purchased by plaintiff which previously formed part of land owned by predecessors-in-interest of defendants - However, it became a servient tenement upon its declaration as surplus area followed by allotment to Diwana, who happen to be father of vendor of plaintiff - Plaintiffs have no other..........
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 17 -- Right of residence - Shared household - Widowed daughter-in-law is not entitled to claim right of residence for two reasons i.e. it is upon her own volition that she stopped residing at suit property for past 13 years and secondly, right of residence provided under S.17(1) of the Act, stood curtailed as..........
Court Fees Act, 1870, Section 7 -- Ad valorem Court fee - Suit for declaration that plaintiffs are owners in possession of 50% share of property and sale deed is null and void - Plaintiffs are neither executant of documents in question nor they are seeking possession of suit property, as they are already in joint possession - Therefore, there would be no requirement to..........
