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Transfer of Suit–Suit for damages filed at Chennai by husband–Suit transferred to Kolkata where wife residing with 2 years old child.

Jan 20, 2019 sclaw

2009(1) LAW HERALD (SC) 256 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dalveer Bhandari The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Harjit Singh Bedi Transfer Petition (Civil) No. 627…

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Decree remains valid unless set aside. Executing Court reduced to interest from 18% to 14%–High Court further reduced the same to 9%–Executing Court cannot go beyond decree–Executing Court to execute the same as it is.

Jan 17, 2019 sclaw

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.B. Sinha The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Cyriac Joseph Civil Appeal No. 7310 of 2008 Deepa Bhargava v. Mahesh…

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Exparte decree–Remedies available to defendants–He may file a suit contending that decree was obtained fraudulently or he may file application under Order 9 Rule 13 C.P.C. or he may prefer an appeal from exparte judgment–He may also file a review petition.

Jan 13, 2019 sclaw

2009(1) LAW HERALD (SC) 224 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.B. Sinha The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Cyriac Joseph Civil Appeal No. 7316 of 2008…

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Agreement to Sell—Increase in Price—Mere escalation of price is no ground for interference with concurrent findings of court below granting the decree. Abatement of Appeal—Omission to implead legal representatives of a deceased defendant, would not lead to abatement of appeal as a whole by itself.

Jan 13, 2019 sclaw

2018(4) Law Herald (SC) 3095 : 2018 LawHerald.Org 1860 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before Hon’ble Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar Hon’ble Mr. Justice…

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Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O.21 R.66–Auction Sale—Setting aside of- -Inadequate Publicity—Authorities committed error in not giving adequate publicity in leading newspaper keeping in view, the value and the potentiality of the land—Directions issued to re-auction the land in question by giving wide publicity in various leading national newspapers having circulation all over India

Jan 6, 2019 sclaw

2018(4) Law Herald (SC) 3338 : 2018 LawHerald.Org 1939 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Hon’ble Mr. Justice Indu Malhotra Civil Appeal No.…

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Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O.39 R.I & R.2 and O.41 R.23–Injunction- Temporary Injunction—Rejection of stay application—Remand of Case- Held; No adequate reason is given in the impugned order for not granting stay; and secondly, the reason given does not in itself justify the rejection having regard to the nature of controversy involved in the writ petition- Case remanded to be decided afresh.

Dec 30, 2018 sclaw

2018(4) Law Herald (SC) 3298 : 2018 LawHerald.org 1792 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Hon’ble Mr. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit Civil…

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Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O.41 R.23—Remand of Case—Suit was based on legality of compromise entered between the parties—Matter was remanded back to be decided afresh on merits-Held; This implied that the question of consideration of compromise petition was required to be decided first- -It is for the simple reason that if the compromise was held to be legal and proper, there was no need to decide the second appeal on merits—In other words, the need to decide the second appeal on merits would have arisen only if the compromise would have been held illegal and not binding on the parties concerned—Matter remanded again to be decided afresh accordingly.

Dec 30, 2018 sclaw

2018(4) Law Herald (SC) 3269 : 2018 LawHerald.org 1788 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before Hon’ble Mr. Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. Abdul Nazeer Civil Appeal…

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Amendment of decree–Court may not have suo moto power to award a decree but same would not mean that court cannot rectify a mistake–If a property was subject matter of pleadings and court did not frame an issue which it ought to have done, it can, at later stage when pointed out may amend the decree — Decree–When the parties have brought on records by way of pleadings and/or other material that apart from property mentioned by plaintiff in his plaint, there are other properties which could be a subject matter of partition, the court would be entitled to pass a decree even in relation thereto.

Dec 26, 2018 sclaw

2009(1) LAW HERALD (SC) 14 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.B. Sinha The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Cyriac Joseph Civil Appeal No. 7008 of 2008…

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Civil Procedure Code, 1908, S. 11–Res judicata–“When the earlier decision declares valid a transaction which is prohibited by law” it does not operate as res judicata–Res judicata will not operate as a bar for entertaining a fresh cause of action

Dec 25, 2018 sclaw

2010(2) LAW HERALD (SC) 787 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dalveer Bhandari The Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.K. Patnaik Civil Appeal No. 3038 of 2007…

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Fraudulent decree–A fraud puts an end to everything–Settled position that such decree is nothing, but a nullity.

Dec 25, 2018 sclaw

2010(2) LAW HERALD (SC) 751 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice V.S. Sirpurkar The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar Civil Appeal No. 1881 of…

Transfer of Suit–Suit for damages filed at Chennai by husband–Suit transferred to Kolkata where wife residing with 2 years old child.

Decree remains valid unless set aside. Executing Court reduced to interest from 18% to 14%–High Court further reduced the same to 9%–Executing Court cannot go beyond decree–Executing Court to execute the same as it is.

Exparte decree–Remedies available to defendants–He may file a suit contending that decree was obtained fraudulently or he may file application under Order 9 Rule 13 C.P.C. or he may prefer an appeal from exparte judgment–He may also file a review petition.

Civil Procedure Code, 1908, S. 11–Res judicata–“When the earlier decision declares valid a transaction which is prohibited by law” it does not operate as res judicata–Res judicata will not operate as a bar for entertaining a fresh cause of action

Fraudulent decree–A fraud puts an end to everything–Settled position that such decree is nothing, but a nullity.

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Limitation in consumer protection cases should be interpreted holistically, considering the continuing cause of action and prioritizing substantive rights over strict procedural time bars.

A suit in representative capacity (Order 1, Rule 8 CPC) is not maintainable if lacking locus standi, and a prior decree (res judicata) bars subsequent suits on the same subject matter, notwithstanding varying reliefs.

Agreement to sell immovable property incurs stamp duty as deemed conveyance via implied/symbolic possession transfer, with duty applying to the agreement (instrument), not the sale (transaction).

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