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⚖Whether unregistered sale deed is admissible in evidence in suit for specific performance of contract?

Civil - Unregistered Sale Deed - Admissibility of - Section 49 of Registration Act, 1908 - Whether unregistered sale deed in a suit admissible for specific performance of contract? - Held, Section 49of Act, 1908 states that unregistered sale deed could be received in evidence to prove the agreement between parties though it may not itself constitute a contract to transfer property - By admission of an unregistered sale deed in evidence in a suit for specific performance as evidence of contract none of provisions of Act, 1908 Act is affected rather court acts in consonance with proviso to Section 49of Act, 1908 - Appeal allowed

Supreme Court of India

S.Kaladevi vs V.R.Somasundaram & Ors on 12 April, 2010

Bench: R.V. Raveendran, R.M. Lodha

Citation: AIR2010SC1654, 2010 (3) ALT 58 (SC),⚖