How Difficult Partition Suit is?

The partition suit is the mother of all civil suits. Many lawyers especially those practicing civil laws must have to master of partition suit. Becoming a master on a partition suit is not very easy. Partition suit is the combination of all the civil suits related to land. There are many dos and don’t in this kind of suit. I handled a lot of those kinds of suits with the help of my beloved senior. I can remember about a suit that has 358 defendants and 39 acres of land divided among the plaintiffs and defendants.

Most important things to learn for partition suit

1. The land system of the country.
2. Succession (Muslim, Hindu, Christian, etc)
3. Law Relating to the partition suit.
4. Case law relating to the partition suit. (A lot of them)

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Today we are learning from number 4. Because, if you do not know case law relating to the partition suit you cannot know who will be the parties, which lands to be included or which will not and many other things. I am giving you case law relating to the partition suit in this post and the other three will be another post. Stay with this blog.

Some Case Law on Suit For Partition:

1. The parties are residing in their respective building for a long time obviously amicably. HCD refused to divide the property by metes and bounds as the relief for partition. The SCAD set aside the view of HCD and observe that amicable partition is no partition in the eye of law and co-shearer are always entitled to pray for partition. | 1 XP(AD) 114
2. In a suit for partition, the plaintiff and defendant stand on the same footing with regard to a party’s capability to ‘sue’ and ‘to be sued’. | 26 DLR 96
3. The plaintiff is entitled to maintain a suit for partition if his possession in some part of the joint property is admitted or established. | 61 DLR 804
4. Value Relating Jurisdiction: in a Partition suit the value of the whole property which determines the jurisdiction of the court and not the value of the plaintiff’s share only. | 21 BLC 306
5. Taking Evidence at any Stage: The HCD held that it is settled principle of law that in a suit for partition any statement or any evidence of the proceedings even before the final decree is drawn up for doing complete justice in a case………| 8 ALR 28
6. A defendant can pray for his saham without filing any written statement. | 6 MLR(AD) 234
7. Hindu widow or Hindu woman having life interest can very much maintain a suit for partition for the fullest enjoyment of her such right in the joint properties. | 68 DLR(AD) 157
8. Partition Suit not maintainable when :
   • Already amicably partitioned.
   • Specific share of respective co-sharer recorded S.A. Khatian
   • Separate Municipal holding has been opened.
   • Enjoying the separate saham so alloted. | 10 BLC(AD) 1
9. Partial Partition: The Rule that all joint properties should be included in suit land for partition is not an inflexible one. Partial Partition can be allowed if not prejudiced by such partition. | 49 DLR(AD) 151, 4 BLD(HCD) 21, 6 BLD(AD) 86
10. Hotch-Potch: The general rule of including all lands of co-sharers in the hotch-potch is not an inflexible one and can be released in an appropriate case if such omission does not case any prejudice to any of the parties in dispute. | 25 BLD(HCD) 283
11. S.A. and R.S. Khatian- distinct and separate holdings for more than 12 years, the plaintiff no more need a partition for their land. | 14 BLT(HCD) 225, 56 DLR 563
12. Evidential value of preliminary decree: Before making a final decree, the preliminary decree for partition on the basis of a solenama being an unstamped memorandum of partition cannot be admitted in evidence. | 2 XP(AD) 31
13. Reallocation of Shaham in the preliminary decree: When the exact area of the suit property was not ascertained and the area mentioned in the report by the advocate commissioner was different from the plaint, the trial court will entitle to reallocated the shaham to the parties in the preliminary decree afresh. | 2 XP(AD) 31
14. Defect of parties and defect of hotch-potch are not a formal defects of the plaint. | 1 XP 89
15. In a suit for partition, a defect of hotch-potch is a formal defect. | 1 XP 89
16. Nobody can acquire any title on the basis of forceful possession. Suit for partition not necessary and suit for declaration of title and recovery of khass possession is a proper remedy. | 1 XP 135
17. When several co-owners as brothers and sisters transfer a part of the estate, the share of each co-owner brothers and sisters 2:1 share proportionately reduced, due to unequal of their sharers and the transferee stands in the shoes of the transferor, transferee never gets more share beyond the share of the transferor. | 4 XP(AD) 1
18. The property left by the father of the plaintiff and defendant were put to auction and same were perched in the name of defendant’s wife during joint mess and in a common fund, the said action was not genuine rather the defendant perched the property in the name of his wife to deprive the other co-sharers and said auction perched by co-sharer be considered the perched for all. | 3 XP(AD) 7
19. A party cannot change both the preliminary decree and final decree in only one appeal. An appeal against a preliminary decree is filed U/S 96 of the C.P.C and against the final decree U/S 97 of the C.P.C. | 6 XP(AD) 105
20. Any document filed earlier, which indicates the plaintiff saham which subsequently allowed and there is no bar to allotting saham at the appellate stage in a suit for partition. | 7 XP(AD) 149
21. In a suit for partition without asserting the saham as per genealogy of the title of the respective parties cannot pass a decree of partition. | 7 XP 111
22. The Appellate Division views expressed above shall not be binding in the trial court is any suit is filed for partition. In such an event the trial court will be at liberty to give saham to the parties in accordance with title and possession established in such partition suit. | 8 ALR(AD) 144
23. Joint ownership and ejmali possession are pre-requisites of partition suit to be maintainable. | 11 MLR(AD) 113
24. Sub-sequent suit for partition of suit land is maintainable where the plaintiff was not allotted saham in the previous suit. Mere payment of rent by one co-sharer does not extinguish the title of the other co-sharer in joint possession. | 15 MLR(HCD) 197
25. There are three stages in the partition suit. 1. Preliminary decree. 2. Final decree. 3. Execution of decree… and which a decree-holder get separate possession through the court in the decreetal land. In the instant case everything was done within a very few days and since the final decree was passed upon vague ascertained of share the final decree is not suitable in law. | 1 LNJ 227
26. A mere denial of the plaintiff’s title by the defendant would not convert a partition suit into a declaratory suit. | 2 BLD(HCD) 36
27. Possession of the one co-sharer in the possession of all co-sharer can be claim title by adverse possession by ousting another co-sharer. | 2 BLD(HCD) 36
28. Where an appeal from preliminary decree infectious when there is no interim order staying the order of the lower appellate court. Such an appeal could be heard although a final decree has been passed in the case and no appeal had been filed against the final decree. | 3 BLD(HCD) 30
29. Whether maintainable without prayer for the establishment of title: Admittedly the plaintiff is in possession of land in homestead plot. She should not be driven to file a separate suit in order to prove her right or interest therein – a question of title can incidentally be gone into in partition suit. | 4 BLD(AD) 23
30. Defendants prayed for saham on the basis of documents admitted into evidence in absence of oral evidence to connect the documents with defense case. A statement made in the W/S are not evidence prayer for saham could not be considered…remand allowed. |8 BLD(AD) 3
31. In a partition suit for immovable property all the incidental question of title, however, complicated maybe, can be decided and disposed of finally. The onus of proof is spirited and spitted up not fixed like criminal cases. | 1 ADC 124
32. Suit for partition and declaration of title: Dismissal of title suit does not always bar a subsequent partition suit. | 18 BLD(AD) 95

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