Must Sellers Disclose Encumbrances in Property Sale Notices?

2023 0 Supreme(Ker) 9

(iii) where the secured creditor, is aware of Statutory dues the payment of which is a charge upon the property, the same could be included in the reserve price, for sale of the property or got deposited from the bidder separately, so that the encumbrance could be cleared, by the ... (iv) where the secured creditor is aware of encumbrance, the value for discharging such encumbrance, either can be included in the reserve price or got deposited from ....

2024 0 Supreme(Cal) 311

The above rule stipulates the details which are to included in the terms and conditions of sale. ... Further the bank will not be held responsible for any charge, lien, encumbrance or property tax or any dues to the Government or anybody in respect of the property under sale. ... Emptor by Caveat Venditor and when a property is put to sale the bank is under statutory obligation to sell the secured assets with clear title property fr....

2024 0 Supreme(AP) 1041

It is a settled principle of law that the rights of a subsequent purchaser of the property, pending suit, are subservient to the rights of parties under the decree, which may be made in the suit. ... In the affidavit filed in support of the petition in I.A.No.628 of 2023, to implead the subsequent purchasers, it was pleaded that after issuance of legal notice, the defendant sold the property to one Allu Chandra Sekhar and his wife Suhasini under a registered sale deed dated 27.04.2016 vide document ... ....

2004 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 1533

Ltd., 1995 (4) SCC 595 and said that in the matter of sale under S.29, the State Financial Corporation must act in accordance with the statute and must not act unfairly i.e., unreasonably. If they do their action can be called into question under Art.226. ... It is axiomatic that the statutory powers vested in the State Financial Corporation under the State Financial Corporation Act, must be exercised bona fide. ... The 4th respondent was therein shown as a defaulter ....

2022 0 Supreme(Mad) 3871

That is why the rule specifically contemplates a provision for the authorised officer, while notifying the sale, to specifically state as to the encumbrance. ... Merely by including a clause as is where is basis or as is what is condition stated in the sale notice does not obviate the bank from disclosing the encumbrance attached to the property, brought for in auction. ... On the other hand, the learned counsel for the respondent-bank would submit that even when the ....

2025 0 Supreme(Cal) 954

The Court explained that the term “encumbrance” in the sale notice must be understood as a charge that runs with the property. Since property tax was merely a statutory liability and not a charge on the property itself, the auction purchaser was not obliged to ascertain or discharge it. ... The property tax, as per the KMC Act is an encumbrance on the property itself. The liability is, therefore, statutory #HL_STAR....

and gave the puisne encumbrance full notice of the action and the puisne encumbrance failed to intervene in the action,- Held, that the puisne encumbrance was bound by the hypothecary decree. ... The ordinary law of mortgage must apply to this case. Voet (20, 4, 2, Berwick, 2nd ed., p. 375) indicates the class of persons who should be joined in hypothecary actions. Moreover, the first defendant cannot be said to be a puisne incumbrancer. [Middleton J. ... -May not the primary mort....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Mad) 74061

3.Notice arising by presumption of law from the existence of certain specified facts and circumstances is constructive or deemed notice. ... Since the attachment was not entered in the encumbrance register before the petitioner purchased the property, I conclude that the petitioner did not have constructive notice also. ... The main contention of the Municipal Corporation was that where the law provided for the creation of a charge against a property#HL_END....

1969 Supreme(Online)(Mad) 7

It is only such a state of affairs that could constitute waiver, as estoppel must be certain to every intent and not to be taken by argument or inference. ... C. 2 only the decree - holder's valuation and the court's valuation have been mentioned and his valuation and the encumbrance were not included therein. It appears after knowing the sale date, he sought for an adjournment of the sale and was asked to deposit some money towards the decree. ... After the property ....

Income Tax Appellate Tribunal

Suppose a property is charged with an encumbrance, the income/from it must be spent first in discharging the encum- brance. This is an instance of the source of an income being subject to an obligation. ... Such obligation must attach to the source of income. ... It may happen that a mortgage was created over the property by the vendor himself and not by his predecessor. In that case, discharge of the encumbrance from out of the sale consideration will clearly be appl....

2023 0 Supreme(SC) 555

In terms of the first paragraph of Section 100, when an immovable property of one party is pledged as security for the payment of money to another, and the transaction does not constitute a mortgage, the latter would acquire a charge over the property. All provisions that apply to a simple mortgage are applicable to a charge. Encumbrance must be a charge on the property, which must run with the property.

2018 0 Supreme(Ker) 520

On this basis, he argues that interference of the Court would be unjustified. 8.2. It is the further submission of Sri. T.M. Chandran that when the respondent No.15 is conducting quarrying operation in the property with due permission and all Government dues have been paid without any default, his enjoyment without any obstruction must be protected. That is why, when the land was sold in public auction, respondent No. 15 purchased the rocky land to conduct quarrying operation and such quarrying activity is duly permitted by the Government. According to him, as the property was acqu....

2018 0 Supreme(Ker) 585

According to him, as the property was acquired through a court sale, no encumbrance can be made over the property. That is why, when the land was sold in public auction, respondent No.15 purchased the rocky land to conduct quarrying operation and such quarrying activity is duly permitted by the Government. On this basis, he argues that interference of the Court would be unjustified.

2012 0 Supreme(Mad) 3835

Therefore, on the basis of the aforesa decisions, it is contended by the learned counsel for the writ petitioner that the forfeiture of th Earnest Money Deposit by the respondent-Bank was illegal. In Jai Logistics v. The Authorised Officer, Syndicate Bank (2010 (4) CTC 627), a Divisio Bench of this Court, to which one of us was a party (D.Murugesan,J), had an occasion consider the effect of Rule 8(6)(f) of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002. It wa held therein that the auction purchasers should also be put on notice of the encumbrance relating to the property, in the l....