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Mrs. Ethel Lourdes D’souza Lobo v. Lucio Neville Jude De Souza & Ors.

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Reported as [2022] 18 S.C.R. 115
Bench S. Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia JJ.
Decided 19 September 2022

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the impugned judgment of the High Court is sound.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Portuguese Civil Procedure Code – Arts. 1369, 1379, 1391 , 1412, 1416, 1417(c) & 1736, 1737, 2126, 2127 – Inve ntory proceedings were initiated on account of death of ‘ ’ and h is wife – These proceedings were initiated for partition of the estat e of the deceased – Estates comprised three items of immovable p roperty – Property in dispute is item no.1 – In licitation of the s aid property, ‘ ’ gave the highest bid – ‘ ’ was also Cabeca de Casal (administrator) – He died – By then, he had not dep osited any amount towards bid offered by him – Claim for reauction was resisted by heirs of ‘ ’,

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