https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=279901 A consent decree for pre-emption cannot bind a person in actual possession with notice of a prior registered sale when that person was not impleaded as a necessary party, because proprietary rights cannot be defeated behind his back and a collusive compromise may amount to fraud on the court. On the stated facts, the decree was therefore unsustainable and void ab initio. The text also states that a daughter could not claim pre-emption merely on consanguinity under the Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1913, as the governing law did not support pre-emption on that basis. The decree and concurrent findings were set aside because the proprietary interest was affected without lawful impleadment and without a valid statutory foundation for pre-emption. en-us Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:56:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=279901 A consent decree for pre-emption cannot bind a person in actual possession with notice of a prior registered sale when that person was not impleaded as a necessary party, because proprietary rights cannot be defeated behind his back and a collusive compromise may amount to fraud on the court. On the stated facts, the decree was therefore unsustainable and void ab initio. The text also states that a daughter could not claim pre-emption merely on consanguinity under the Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1913, as the governing law did not support pre-emption on that basis. The decree and concurrent findings were set aside because the proprietary interest was affected without lawful impleadment and without a valid statutory foundation for pre-emption. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=279901