Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Co-owners - Execution of agreement by power of attorney holder - Validity - Defendant No.1/power of attorney holder lacked the authority to bind defendant Nos.6 to 8 in the agreement to sell, as GPA did not confer upon him the power to sell the property on behalf of his sisters at the time of agreement, having been impliedly..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Bona fide purchasers - Agreement in question was not executed by all the co-owners - Agreement to sell was incomplete and unenforceable against Defendant Nos.6 to 8, who held a majority share in the property - Enforcing such an agreement would be inequitable - All the co-owners of property transferred the suit property in favour..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Restraining Sub-Registrar from accepting documents pertaining to suit properties for registration till disposal of suit - Suit for declaration that Wills, release deed and Partition deeds are null and void - There are number of unanswered questions and suspicious maneuvering, the odds are clearly..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Partition suit - Plaintiff by way of amendment wants to question the validity of Will, on the basis of which defendant sought to have suit dismissed - Without determination of question of Will and its genuineness, partition of suit property would not be possible - Application for amendment rightly..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Law as to : (i) All amendments are to be allowed which are necessary for determining the real question in controversy provided it does not cause injustice or prejudice to the other side; (ii) applications U.O.6.R.17 CPC should be ordinarily allowed if amendment is for effective and proper adjudication..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38, 34 -- Suit for injunction simpliciter - Maintainability - Defendants have questioned title of plaintiff in written statement - Suit for injunction simpliciter is not maintainable - Plaintiff ought to have converted the suit for injunction into suit for declaration...........
Compromise decree -- Setting aside - Compromise may be void or voidable, it is required to be set aside by filing a suit within period as permissible under law - Contention that a void decree can be challenged at any time or that law of limitation does not apply to challenge such a decree, has no merits...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 1(3) -- Late production of documents - Partition suit - Defendant no.1 sought to produce original bank passbooks and bank statement of defendant no.1 and defendant no.2 - Trial Court exceeded its jurisdiction to deny leave to produce said documents on record by recording a finding that authenticity and genuineness of documents seem..........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 38, 0, Permanent injunction -- Dispute regarding common passage - Portion `A' was purchased by plaintiff and portion `B' in the back was purchased by defendant - Plaintiffs have agreed to leave 15 feet wide common passage in their portion `A' for common use by both defendants and plaintiffs for purposes of ingress and egress to their..........
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 18 -- Suit u/s 18 of the Act - Interim maintenance - Matrimonial relationship between parties still subsists as there is no document on record to show that parties have been divorced - Wife is aged more than 70 years - She has pleaded that she is suffering from several old age related problems and also certain diseases -..........
