https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277689 Under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, registration requirements and notice of transfer serve record-keeping and penal purposes, but they do not make an actual sale of a motor vehicle ineffective. Ownership is governed by the law of sale of movable property, and the registration certificate is not a document of title. Accordingly, where a vehicle had been transferred before the accident, tortious liability for the accident attached to the transferee as the actual owner, not to the registered owner or his legal representatives merely because the registration record had not yet been updated. en-us Fri, 06 Jun 1986 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:20:56 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277689 Under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, registration requirements and notice of transfer serve record-keeping and penal purposes, but they do not make an actual sale of a motor vehicle ineffective. Ownership is governed by the law of sale of movable property, and the registration certificate is not a document of title. Accordingly, where a vehicle had been transferred before the accident, tortious liability for the accident attached to the transferee as the actual owner, not to the registered owner or his legal representatives merely because the registration record had not yet been updated. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 06 Jun 1986 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277689