The company contention was that they have not entered into any agreement with Mrs. Carlil, therefore no contractual obligation arises from the side of company to pay the reward to Mrs. Carlil...
The Supreme Court passed an order on 5th May 2020, refusing to entertain a petition which sought direction for the Centre to ensure compliance with the MHA order with respect to payment of rent by students and laborers during the lockdown due to COVI..
The Supreme Court of India in this case held that the contract is not frustrated merely because its performance has become difficult because of some inevitable or that a contract is not frustrated merely because the conditions in which it is made are..
The Supreme Court of India in this case held that Section 56 of Indian Contract Act is inapplicable to lease agreements as a lease is a completed conveyance or an executed contract...
The appeals are allowed in the aforesaid terms and decree of partition shall be drawn by the trial court accordingly. The Court passed the judgment to divide the property in equal share. i.e. 1/5th, between the parties involved in the case. The Respo..
In its judgment, the SC held that a plain reading of the statute (Amendment Act) itself suggests that a daughter has a right in coparcenary property on and from the commencement of the Amendment Act...
The appeal filed on 5 April 2012 by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) against the decision of the Indian Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel issued on 17 March 2011 is admissible and upheld. Ms. Ashwini, Ms. Panwar, Ms. Mary Th..
It was held that gambling or conducting the business of gambling is extra-commercium and hence not included within the meaning of ‘trade, commerce or intercourse’. Consequently, it is not protected by the fundamental right to trade and profession und..
As per section 2(d) of the Indian Contract Act (1872), “When, at the desire of the promisor, the promisee or any other person has done or abstained from doing or does or abstains from doing, or promises to do or abstain from doing, something, such ac..
The contract was illegal and, therefore, void. At the time the contract was formed both parties were in pari delicto. However, Pritchard J said that there was a difference between withdrawing due to repentance and withdrawing simply because the contr..
The Hon’ble court held that when a contract is made by conversation on telephone, the place where acceptance of offer is intimated to the offeror, is the place where the contract is made, and therefore the Civil Court at Ahmedabad had jurisdiction to..
The court held that self-serve shop is like a book shop where the customer has an option to choose the book lies and the sale is only done after the payment is been made to the bookshop owner. As the bookshop owner has the power to deny the sale of a..
A member of the tarwad has no right to maintenance from out of the Sthanam properties nor can such property be converted into tarwad property by the grant of such maintenance by custom or otherwise or intermingling of the Sthanam properties with th..
In the absence of a female member, the Tavazhi must come to an end with no chance of there being a female member to continue the line. The rule of survivorship in such circumstances ceases to operate and the surviving male members, in the absence of ..
The Respondent could not claim the business by reason of succession since the said sister Adam Singh by full-blood would have excluded the Respondent’s and the said Deep Narayan Singh since all of them come in the same entry of Class II heirs. Sectio..
The court held that in the present case that claim cannot be regarded as one on the basis of contract. The plaintiff was in the service of defendant and as a servant he was sent to find the missing boy. It was his duty to find the boy, however, the a..
The partition had taken place by a decree of court in 1991 itself. Mrs. Mithlesh Aggarwal, died in 1998. Mere pendency of the execution would not give right to the Appellant, who is husband of Mrs. MithleshAggarwal, to revive an HUF which ceased to e..
The agreement did no more than to acknowledge the liability to pay monthly allowance at a fixed and enhanced rate to PannaKuar.The nature of the allowance received by her was not, therefore, altered and, in spite of the execution of the agreement, th..
In this case, the landlord leased the property to the appellants for commercial purposes vide a lease deed that was executed in 1975. In 2008, the landlord filed an eviction petition under Section 14(1)(e) of Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958, which was g..
The Court observed that a marriage under Hindu law can be dissolved only through a decree of divorce obtained under any ground under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and not by conversion. Thus, a second marriage solemnised before dissoluti..
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