Can Lease Be Made in Favour of a Minor in India?

I am not aware whether this Court has recognized leases of premises belonging to minor children when made by parents-there being no guardian-for the purpose of preventing the waste and loss of the property. An opinion was expressed in Perera v. ... On 2nd October, 1903, Sanchi executed a deed of lease for ten years in favour of second defendant and Mohotti Appu. On 23rd March, 1897, Mohotti assigned his interest in th....

2025 0 Supreme(SC) 1779

The lease was avoided by the minor on attaining majority. The Court held that the effect of such avoidance would be that though the lease was voidable but once it is avoided it becomes void from its very inception and no statutory rights accrue in favour of the lessee. ... Annamalai Pillai (supra) went on to record that when the respondent avoided the lease deed executed by his father, the lease....

Galle, 5,711/L     Minor-Lease of immovable property belonging to him-Requirement of sanction  of Court--Right of guardian to execute lease. ... The guardian of a minor, even when he is the father of the minor, is not entitled to execute a lease of the minor's immovable property for a term exceeding one month without the prior sanction of the Court. ... Jayewardene contended that ....

Minor-Sanction given by Court to lease property to one person-Lease by aerator to another person- Where a Court gives leave to a curator to lease property to one person for a certain rent, he cannot lease it to another person. ... The plaintiff then brought this action alleging that the first defendant fraudulently and collusively disregarded the order of the Court, authorizing the grant of the #HL....

2023 0 Supreme(J&K) 234

favour of the respondent No. 5. ... Minerals without any authority for over a period of three years and such a person does not have the credentials to be allotted any lease of the Minor Minerals. ... Factual matrix of the case is that the official respondent Nos. 1 to 4 received two applications for grant of Minor Lease of Minor Minerals on 23.02.2013 and 04.03.2013 from the respondent N....

A lease made for a short term is binding; for he who so leases does not alienate . . . . . . And if the lease is extended beyond the time during which the tutelage or curatorship lasts, the pupil or minor is held bound by the lease made by the tutor or curator . . . . . . ... On February 5, 1898, Ukku executed a lease, for herself and as natural guardian of her #HL....

In the latter, the lease or sale is not void ab initio-it is voidable at the option of the minor or perhaps, as Ennis J. expresses it, it does not bind the minor unless he ratifies it expressly or impliedly on attaining his majority. ... Inasmuch as the premises were held on a lease from the Crown, he made the fourth respondent a party to the action, but claimed no relief against him. ...   The cas....

No. 7,031 prepared, which they believed to be a lease and signed, but which they afterwards found was a gift in his favour. ... The plaintiffs replied that the gift was void as against the first plaintiff, because she was at the date of its execution a minor, and because the execution of it was procured by the fraudulent representation of the defendant (who was a nephew of Lorenzo) that it was a deed of lease in his #HL_....

Until the Court decides this in the claimant's favour, he has no title by purchase or sale in the absence of a notarial deed in his favour. ... The defendant claimed to be entitled to possession of the land under a deed of lease dated March 15, 1890, from Pitche's father Arumugam, to whom deed No. 5,479 (of 1889) in favour of Pitche was delivered, and who had paid his own money for the land to Muttusami. ... It is t....

Lease by a minor-Is lease void or voidable-Action for declaration that least was null and void and mesne profits-Claim by defendant for refund of rent-Prescription. Land was leased by a minor to raise money for her marriage. ... - This was an action for a declaration that a lease made by the first plaintiff was null and void; for a declaration of title to the land leased; for ejec....

2021 0 Supreme(Bom) 248

H.B. Danagher and Anr., AIR 1936 Madras 564 also does not advance the cause of the plaintiff. In that context, it was held that under the Mohammadan Law it is within the powers of a father as a guardian of his minor daughter, to grant a lease of the minor’s property for the minor’s benefit. In the said case, a lease of the property of the minor was given by the father of the minor.

2020 0 Supreme(All) 481

The manager of a lunatic, the Karta of a joint Hindu family, can grant a lease. But one out of several co-sharers cannot grant a lease unless he is authorized by all the co-sharers to do so. Though a minor cannot, his guardian can grant a lease. As per Section 7 of the Act of 1882 every person competent to contract and entitled to transferable property, or authorized to dispose of transferable property not his own, is competent to transfer such property.

2019 0 Supreme(Bom) 1255

So not much can be made out in favour of Accused due to such minor discrepancy. Oral evidence on number of blows given by Accused Nos.1 and 2 is not that consistent with medical evidence but on material point, the role attributed and the weapons used, it is consistent with medical evidence.

2014 0 Supreme(AP) 478

I do not know whether it is by an accident or coincidence that all the beneficiaries of extension orders have approached the Hon’ble Minister for Mines & Geology, Government of Andhra Pradesh on the same day i.e. on 02.09.2013 and the Hon’ble Minister endorsed them on the same day for taking necessary action. Thereafter State Government has either by design or default or deliberately, led itself into believing that the legal regime required it to refund certain amounts to the lessees whereas, ....

2008 0 Supreme(Bom) 1244

A bare reading of this provision of Article 16 clearly suggests that in the first place a major co-owner of an undivided property is entitled to create a valid lease and if a minor share-holder wants, to create a valid lease, it can only be so when the other co-sharers give their assent to such a lease. " In this backdrop it may be necessary to examine the implications of provisions of the Procedural Code or Civil Code which govern the proceedings. Article 16 of that decree i....