A young man buys a vehicle and refuses to transfer it in his name to evade violations

A young man bought a vehicle under a preliminary sale contract and refused to transfer it in his name for four years, forcing its previous owner to pay the violations committed by the buyer, while the Abu Dhabi Family and Civil and Administrative Claims Court ordered the defendant to pay the plaintiff an amount of 18,535 dirhams.

In detail, the owner of a vehicle filed a lawsuit in which he demanded to oblige a young man to pay him 18,535 dirhams with interest at 12% and compensation for material damages at 2000 dirhams and obligating him to pay fees and expenses, explaining that he sold a car to the young man under a preliminary sale contract in June 2018, and the young man received the car And her identification papers and handed him the full price, but he did not transfer ownership in his name and committed several violations while it is still registered in his name, forcing him to pay the violations as well as renew the car and insure it in the amount of the claim.

During the consideration of the case, the defendant submitted a reply memorandum that included a counterclaim in which he requested the rejection of the original claim and, in the opposite case, the termination of the car sale contract and the cross-obligation of the defendant to return the value of the car to the young man and the delayed interest at 12%.

While the two witnesses of the plaintiff confirmed, after they took an oath that the car, the subject of the lawsuit, has been in the possession of the defendant since 2018, and that the young man asked one of them to mediate to end the issue of the car with the plaintiff, while the second witness confirmed that he was the one who wrote the sales contract signed by both parties, while the court decided to direct The plaintiff took the complementary oath, and he swore it, confirming that he had handed over the car in question to the defendant in June 2018, and that since this date it has been at the young man's disposal.

In the ruling, the court stated that the sales contract and the witnesses’ statements are evidence of the validity of the plaintiff’s claim that the young man received the car from the date of its sale, that it was under his possession and was completed by directing the completed oath, and then the court proves the validity of the defendant’s original receipt of the car.

The court indicated that the young man's request to terminate the contract of sale of the car and to oblige the owner to return the value of the car was based on no basis from reality and the law.

In the original case, the court ruled obligating the young man to pay the plaintiff an amount of 18,535 dirhams, and obligated him to pay fees and expenses, and rejected other requests.

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