Supreme Court of India

Dharmaji Shankar Shinde and Others v. Rajaram Shripad Joshi (dead) through Lrs. and Others

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Reported as [2019] 6 S.C.R. 257
Bench R. Banumathi and R. Subhash Reddy JJ.
Decided 23 April 2019

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the impugned judgment of the High Court in Second Appeal No.887 of 2003 dated 15.11.2006 is set aside and these appeals are allowed.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Deeds and Documents – ‘Mortgage by conditional sale’ or ‘Sale with a condition to repurchase’ – Respondents-plainti ffs case was that the suit property was mortgaged by their fath er in favour of the predecessor-in-interest of the appellants-de fendants for Rs.2500/- – Pursuant thereto, a Deed (Ex.P-73) was executed by the parties – According to the respondents the said deed was a deed of ‘mortgage by conditional sale’ with a condition that i f the amount is not repaid within a period of five years from the dat e of execution of the deed, then the same would be treated as an ab solute sale

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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