Assignment of Specific-Performance Decree Doesn’t Require Registration: SC

Rajeswari & Ors. Vs Shanmugam & Anr. (Supreme Court of India) No Sale, No Title, No Registration: Assignment of Specific-Performance Decree Needs No Registration -Supreme Court Settles Decree-Assignment Law The Supreme Court considered whether a deed assigning a decree for specific performance of an agreement to sell immovable property must be registered under Section 17(1)(e), Registration Act, 1908. The appellants—legal heirs of the judgment-debtor—argued that the decree-holder’s assignment of the specific-performance decree (Ex.B1), being unregistered, was invalid & incapa...