Topic
Title to Immovable Property
2 articles
Property Law
A Forty-Year-Old Land Title Cannot Be Reopened by Recasting the Dispute as Encroachment, Supreme Court Holds
A department reopened a forty-year-old land record on the strength of a third-party complaint that a lake was being encroached upon. The Supreme Court held that framing the dispute as one of public interest does not let a revenue authority sidestep a statutory limitation period that had expired decades earlier.
13 min readCivil & Property Litigation
Mutation Is Not Title: Jamnabai v. Vasudev on Revenue Entries, Relinquishment and the Limits of Second Appeal
A name removed from the revenue record in 1990 did not cost a co-owner his share. This case note works through all four issues the Supreme Court decided in Jamnabai v. Vasudev, from Section 117 of the MP Land Revenue Code to the proviso to Section 34 of the Specific Relief Act.
14 min read