Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 205 · Decided 12 April 2010
S. Kaladevi v. V.R. Somasundaram and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 205 · [2010] 4 S.C.R. 515
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3192/2010
- Decided
- 12 April 2010
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act; Transfer of Property Act; Registration Act Section 49
Headnote
A B Registration Act, 1908: s.49, proviso - Unregistered sale deed is admissible in evidence in a suit for specific performance of the contract - Evidence Act, 1872 - Specific C performance - Transfer of property Act, 1882. The question which arose for consideration in the present appeal was unregistered sale. deed was not 0 admissible in evidence in a suit for specific performance of the contract. Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: The Trial Court erred in not admitting the E unregistered sale deed in evidence in view of the proviso to Section 49 of the Registration Act, 1908 and
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