ANUBHA RAWAT CHOUDHARY
Shyamlal Poddar @ Shyam Poddar – Appellant
Versus
Sukhdeo Mandal – Respondent
Certainly. Based on the provided legal document, the key points are as follows:
The agreement to sell was scrutinized, and it was held that a vendor cannot pass a better title than what he actually possesses. This means that if the vendor's title or possession is defective or incomplete, the sale cannot confer a valid and exclusive ownership to the buyer (!) (!) .
The memorandum of partition, which was relied upon by the plaintiff to establish exclusive rights and possession, was found to be an unregistered document. Since it was a document effecting a partition and not merely a record of a family settlement, it was deemed compulsorily registrable and therefore inadmissible in evidence for establishing title or partition (!) (!) .
The document dated 20.11.2005 (Exhibit-4), which was claimed to be a family settlement or partition, was determined to be a memorandum of compromise rather than a formal partition deed. It did not detail the previous partition, nor did it reflect actual possession or mutation of property, and was not registered, rendering it inadmissible and invalid as proof of partition (!) (!) .
The exclusion of the daughters and their legal heirs from the memorandum of partition was found to be unlawful, especially since the Hindu Succession Act had come into force, granting daughters coparcenary rights. Their non-inclusion rendered the partition invalid and not binding on them (!) (!) .
The sale deed executed in 2008 by the legal heirs of Moti Poddar was held to be valid on its face, but since the underlying partition (Exhibit-4) was invalid and the vendors did not have exclusive possession or clear title, the sale could not transfer a valid and marketable title. The vendors could only pass a share of joint family property, not an absolute or exclusive title (!) .
The plaintiff's claim was primarily based on the sale deed of 2008, which itself was founded on an invalid and unregistered partition document. As the vendors did not have exclusive possession or clear title, the sale did not transfer valid ownership to the plaintiff (!) (!) .
The possession of the defendants, including the defendant no. 1 and his wife (defendant no. 1(a)), was found to be in accordance with their claims of ownership through gift and adverse possession, which were not proved to be valid or continuous in a manner that would extinguish the original owner's title (!) (!) (!) .
The court emphasized that the vendor cannot pass better title than what he possesses, and since the legal heirs of Narsingh Poddar did not have valid, exclusive, or registered partitioned rights, the sale and subsequent transfer to the plaintiff were invalid, leading to the dismissal of the suit (!) .
Overall, the appeal was allowed, and the suit was dismissed because the foundational documents and claims relied upon by the plaintiff were either invalid or insufficient to establish exclusive ownership or possession (!) .
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JUDGMENT
This appeal has been filed challenging the judgment and decree dated 26.02.2019 (decree signed on 06.03.2019) passed by learned District Judge I, Jamtara dismissing Civil Appeal No.14 of 2017 and confirming the judgement and decree dated 31.03.2017 (decree signed on 11.04.2017) passed by learned Civil Judge (Senior Division) I, Jamtara in Title Suit No.9 of 2009. The appellant was the defendant no.1 in Title Suit No.9 of 2009.
2. This appeal has been admitted for hearing on the following substantial questions of law:—
i. Whether exhibit -4 was effecting partition and compulsorily registrable as per section 17 and 49 of the Registration Act or it was just a memorandum of earlier partition?
ii. Whether Oral Family Settlement (Exhibit-4) entered into between the sons with respect to the property acquired by their father during his lifetime without making daughters as party to the said deed is binding upon the parties and whether the finding of the learned appellate court is perverse and against the mandate of law?
3. Case of the plaintiff
I. The plaintiff Sukhdeo Mandal filed the suit for declaration of right, title and interest over the suit properties in his favour and
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