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Diwali Lal And Ors. vs Sardar Baldev Singh And Anr. on 27 February, 1985

"9. The first submission of Mr. Prasad was that the learned Subordinate Judge was not right in holding that the defendants had failed to prove the partition of 1969 and that the suit property had fallen in the exclusive share of Bangali Lal. In my opinion, it was wholly unnecessary for the learned Subordinate Judge to go into these questions as it was beyond the scope of a suit for specific performance of contract. Apart from it, the contract, if any, can be enforced only against a person who is a party to it and not against a person who is not a party to it; but the person who is a party to the contract for sale is bound to execute the sale deed if other terms are fulfilled by the purchaser, even though the property in question might not be belonging to him, as in that case the purchaser would take the risk of purchasing from him with his open eyes. It is obvious that the person to whom the property might legally belong cannot be bound by that sale, but all the same the parties to the contract would be bound by the contract to sell and the purchaser under the contract can enforce the vendor under the contract to perform his part of the contract. In such circumstances, I leave the question of title over the suit property open to be decided in a properly framed suit."
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