Banking Law -- Title Deed Retention -- A bank cannot withhold original title documents of a secured asset after accepting full settlement of dues and issuing a no dues certificate -- Accepta..

Employees' Compensation Act, 1923 -- Employees' Compensation -- Murder on Duty -- Death of an employee by assault while on duty qualifies as accidental death arising out of and in the course..

Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O.47 R.1 r/w S.114 -- Review Jurisdiction -- Non-Consideration of One of Multiple Orders Challenged -- Failure to consider one of two impugned orders challenged i..

Once a registered Sale Deed is executed between parties specifying a sale consideration, a suit to recover any balance amount based on an earlier Agreement to Sell is barred under Sections 9..

A plaint for specific performance cannot be summarily rejected under Order VII Rule 11(d) of the CPC by mechanically imputing constructive notice of registered documents under Section 3 of t..

Under Section 122 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, corresponding to Section 116 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, a tenant inducted into a property by a landlord is estopped from su..

Under Order 6 Rule 17 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, amendment of pleadings must be allowed if required for proper adjudication and to avoid multiplicity of proceedings. Mere delay in fi..

Compensation for amputation of a limb in a motor accident must include future costs of periodic replacement and maintenance of prosthetic limbs, and not merely the present cost of a single a..

Once probate is granted in respect of a Will, the probate judgment operates in rem and the Will need not be proved afresh under Section 68 of the Indian Evidence Act in subsequent civil proc..

Exclusion of natural heirs from a Will does not, by itself, constitute a suspicious circumstance invalidating the Will. The purpose of a Will is precisely to alter the normal line of success..

A plaint cannot be rejected in its entirety under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC merely because one of the prayers or reliefs sought therein is found to be legally untenable, so long as the other relie..

A plaintiff seeking a decree of specific performance of an agreement to sell is required to independently plead and prove his continuous readiness and willingness to perform his part of the ..