Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 109 · Decided 13 February 2024
Vasantha (Dead) THR. LR. v. Rajalakshmi @ Rajam (Dead) THR.LRS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 109 · [2024] 2 S.C.R. 326
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3854/2014
- Decided
- 13 February 2024
- Bench
- HRISHIKESH ROY, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Limitation Act Section 27, 58; Specific Relief Act Section 34
Headnote
The action that set in motion the instant dispute was in the year 1947, when a mother 'T' transferred property by executing First Settlement Deed in one form to her two sons and in another, to her daughter. Some forty-odd years later, the filed a suit in respect of such property, in 1993. The issues arise for consideration are (i) Whether G's suit for declaration based on the First Settlement Deed, eventually filed in the year 1993 barred by limitation; (ii) Whether the suit for declaration simpliciter was
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