Contract Act-'Undue Influence' Can't Be Inferred Merely Because Family Member Was Taking Care Of Elderly Person: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

11 Sept 2019 6:56 PM IST

"If certain members of the family are looking after the elderly and others by choice or by compulsion of vocation are unable to do so, there is bound to be more affinity between the elder members of the family with those who are looking after them day to day."

The Supreme Court, in a judgment delivered on Wednesday, observed that 'undue influence' in execution of contract cannot be inferred merely because a family member was looking after his family elder. In a suit between brothers, it was alleged that the defendants obtained the sale deed from their deceased father fraudulently, by undue influence because of old age and infirmity of the...

Contract Act-'Undue Influence' Can't Be Inferred Merely Because Family Member Was Taking Care Of Elderly Person: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

"If certain members of the family are looking after the elderly and others by choice or by compulsion of vocation are unable to do so, there is bound to be more affinity between the elder members of the family with those who are looking after them day to day."

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