The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance ruled to compel a young man to pay his friend 100,000 dirhams, the value of a car he bought from him and did not pay for it, noting that the defendant’s failure to attend the decisive oath session proves the validity of what the young man claims that he transferred the ownership of the car to the defendant before receiving the price .
In detail, a young man filed a lawsuit against his friend, requesting that he pay him 100,000 dirhams for the price of the car, and directing the decisive oath to him that he did not pay 100,000 dirhams for the price of the car in question, and obligating him to pay fees and expenses and in return for attorney fees, indicating that his friend bought a car from him Cadillac, and due to his confidence in him, he transferred the ownership to him before receiving the price, and after that he delayed paying the price.
The court set a date for the defendant to take the decisive oath, but in the specified session, as the plaintiff’s attorney, and the defendant failed to appear, the court decided to reserve the case for judgment.
The court stated in the rationale for the ruling, that the first article of the Evidence Law that the plaintiff must prove his right, and the defendant has the right to deny it, noting that the oath or abandonment of its oath entails settling the dispute over the incident that was the subject of it, so when that was, and the young man asked Giving the decisive oath to his friend, after he wanted the evidence, and the court responded to his request, and directed the decisive oath to the defendant, but he did not attend, despite his presence in the previous sessions, thus proving to the court the correctness of what the young man claims, and the defendant’s preoccupation with the plaintiff with the value of the car, and it ruled By obligating the defendant to pay the young man 100,000 dirhams, and obliging him to pay expenses, fees, and attorney fees.
