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May 2023

Allied Laws

By Dr. K. Shivaram, Senior Advocate
Rahul K. Hakani | Shashi Bekal
Advocates
Reading Time 7 mins

5. Jagadeesan and others vs. A. Logesh AIR 2023 MADRAS 94 Date of order: 11th November, 2022

Registration – Unregistered agreement to sell – Non-registration is not a bar from specific performance [Registration Act, 1908, Section 17(1)(g), 49; Specific Relief Act, 1963, S. 20]

FACTS

The Plaintiff/Respondent filed a suit for the specific performance of a contract based on an unregistered agreement of sale before the District Court.

The Defendants/Petitioners challenged the maintainability of the said suit since the same was based on an unregistered sale agreement.

Hence the present petition.

HELD

In view of the express provision contained in section 49 of the Registration Act, the suit cannot be rejected on the grounds that the agreement is unregistered as per section 17 (1)(g) of the Registration Act and section 2(g) of the Contract Act. The Court referred to the decision in the case of D. Devarajan vs. Alphonse Marry & another reported in 2019 (2) CTC 290 in which it was held that the consequence of non-registration does not operate as a total bar to look into the c

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