Civil, consumer & property
Civil, Consumer & Property — Kerala Appeals & Remedies
Civil, consumer and property remedies before the courts and commissions in Ernakulam and the High Court of Kerala — RFA, RSA, MFA and revisions, execution and caveat, consumer complaints and appeals, RERA, rent control, land revenue and paddy-land matters, MACT award appeals, and the tribunal-origin and statutory routes that sit alongside them. Each entry gives the route, the clock and the papers. General information only — verify the current position on your facts before filing.
Civil suits — recovery, contracts, injunction, declaration and partition
- Order VII Rule 11 – rejection of plaint
- Commercial recovery — Order XXXVII suit in the Commercial Court, Ernakulam
- UPI / personal loan recovery
- Breach of contract – damages
- Specific performance of agreement
- NRI specific performance via PoA
- Temporary injunction – Or.39
- Declaration – Sec.34 Specific Relief
- Cancellation of instrument – Sec.31-33
- Possession – licence vs lease
- Partition – NRI co-owner
- Partition – final decree proceedings
Civil appeals, revisions and execution
- RFA against Sub Court decree – Ernakulam
- RFA valuation and court-fee check
- RSA – substantial question of law
- RSA – concurrent findings challenge
- MFA against Order 43 appealable orders
- CMA against temporary injunction – Or.39 R.1-2
- CRP – civil revision
- OP(C) – Article 227 supervisory
- Caveat – Section 148A CPC
- Execution petition – Order 21
- Execution – Or.21 Rule 32 disobedience
- Transferred decree execution
- Condonation of delay – appeals
- Ex-parte decree – Or.IX R.13 vs Sec.96 appeal
- Cross-objection – Or.XLI R.22
- Stay of execution – Or.XLI R.5
- LAR appeal – compensation enhancement (Sec.74 RFCTLARR)
- Settlement / mediation referral in appeals – Sec.89
- RCR – rent-control revision (Kerala Buildings Lease & Rent Control Act)
- MACA – MACT award quantum appeal (S.173 MV Act)
- Transfer petition under Section 24 CPC – shifting a civil case between courts
- Original Petition (Civil) under Article 227 against execution court order
- Original Petition (Civil) under Article 227 against Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal interim order
Property, revenue and RERA
- Title verification – 13-year EC chain
- Agreement for sale – advance forfeiture (Sec.74 Contract Act)
- Sale deed – drafting and registration
- Mortgage – simple vs equitable
- Lease vs licence test
- Stamp adjudication – Collector opinion
- Mutation / pokkuvaravu
- Survey – FMB, resurvey, boundary
- Easement of necessity
- LARR reference – Sec.64
- Paddy-land 27A (Form-6) – Kerala Conservation Act
- Paddy-land 27B – Farhana principles
- Building permit – Tribunal for LSGIs
- Demolition notice – Sec.235 Municipality / Panchayat
- Conveyance – UDS apartment (Ernakulam)
- Caretaker / licence arrangement for NRI property
- K-RERA complaint – builder delay / deviation
- RERA appeal – Tribunal (REAT)
- Boundary / encroachment – revenue + civil track
- Title suit – declaration + possession
- Partition / release / gift deeds – registration
- NRI gift of property
- NRI PoA for property management
- Rent-control eviction S.11 petition (bona fide need / arrears)
- Kerala Land Reforms Act revision – CRP(LR) before the High Court
Land, revenue and local-body writs
- Mandamus for building permit inaction by municipality or panchayat
- Certiorari against municipal council demolition or licensing order
- Challenge to resumption or eviction under the Kerala Land Assignment Act (W.P.(C))
- Thandaper transfer and mutation delay writ
- Possession certificate and location sketch refusal writ
- Challenge to building tax or luxury tax assessment
- Challenge to land acquisition and LARR compensation award
- Paddy land and wetland reclamation order challenge — Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act
- Challenge to sand mining and quarrying permit rejection
- Challenge to building permit rejection by municipality
- Challenge to demolition and stop-memo notice
- Challenge to trade licence cancellation
- Challenge to property tax assessment by local body
- Writ against illegal construction by neighbour — local body inaction
Consumer disputes
- Defect complaint – Sec.35 CPA 2019 (DCDRC Ernakulam)
- State appeal – Sec.41 + delay-condonation proviso
- E-commerce – Rule 10 duties (E-commerce Rules 2020)
- Insurance repudiation – health / motor / life
- Medical negligence – Bolam test
- Unfair trade practice – CCPA
- Cross-border / outstation seller jurisdiction
- Builder delay – consumer track (alternative to RERA)
- Airline / travel deficiency
- Bank / UPI deficiency vs fraud – forum choice
- Telecom / broadband deficiency
- Automobile defect – dealer + manufacturer
- Jewellery – weight / purity shortfall
- Hospital billing / package dispute
- Education / coaching UTP
- Food / restaurant deficiency
- Review / revision inside commissions
- Execution of commission order – Sec.71-72
- Consumer mediation – Sec.74-81
- Costs / interest structuring
- Certiorari against consumer commission order passed in excess of jurisdiction
