Mode of proof

Oral agreement to sell was permissible under the law but if its existence/validity was questioned, then it should be proved through cogent/corroborative/ confidence inspiring evidence

Non-mentioning of the details of time, place and witnesses in the plaint was fatal for the suit based on oral agreement to sell

Un-written agreement could only be proved through extra-ordinary / corroborative / convincing / concrete / unimpeachable character of evidence.

Provisions governing the mode of proof could not be compounded or dispensed with, nor could the Court, which had to pronounce a judgment, as to the proof or otherwise of the document be precluded to see whether the document had been proved in accordance with law and could, as such, form basis of a judgment.