Supreme Court of India

Korukonda Chalapathi Rao & Anr. v. Korukonda Annapurna Sampath Kumar

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Reported as [2021] 11 S.C.R. 836
Bench K. M. Joseph and S. Ravindra Bhat JJ.
Decided 1 October 2021

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the document dated 9-9-1994 was not mere memorandum of family settlement, rather a family settlement itself.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Registration Act, 1908 – ss. 17(1)(b), 49 – Partition – Famil y Settlement, if required registration – Suit filed by respondent inter alia for declaration of title over the plaint schedule pr operty and eviction of the appellants – Appellants filed the e vidence affidavit and sought to mark Kharurunama - the family settlement and a receipt, allowed by trial court – High Court held that the documents bei ng unregistered and unstamped were inadmissible in evi dence – On appeal, held: Words used in the document referred t o the arrangements allegedly which the parties made in the past – It does

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