Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 320 · Decided 6 July 2021
Ripudaman Singh v. Tikka Maheshwar Chand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 320 · [2021] 6 S.C.R. 562
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2336/2021
- Decided
- 6 July 2021
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Registration Act Section 17(2)(vi), 17
Headnote
Registration Act, 1908: s.17(2)(vi) - Parties to dispute are brothers - Suit for possession disputing Will - Compromise decree between brothers - Whether a compromise decree in respect of land which is not the subject-matter of suit but is part of the settlement between the registration in terms of s.17(2)(vi) of the Registration Act - Held: As heir of deceased-father, the plaintiff-appellant had a right in the estate left by the deceased - Therefore, it was not a new right being created for the first time when the parties entered into a compromise
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