https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307144 A bona fide family arrangement that merely records future steps for division of joint family property does not itself create or extinguish rights in specific immovable property, so compulsory registration is not attracted. The Court also held that where an earlier final finding had already determined that the family properties were partitioned in 1964, the same parties could not reopen that issue in a later partition suit; res judicata barred the fresh claim. The dismissal of the suit and the concurrent findings below were therefore sustained. en-us Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:19:49 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307144 A bona fide family arrangement that merely records future steps for division of joint family property does not itself create or extinguish rights in specific immovable property, so compulsory registration is not attracted. The Court also held that where an earlier final finding had already determined that the family properties were partitioned in 1964, the same parties could not reopen that issue in a later partition suit; res judicata barred the fresh claim. The dismissal of the suit and the concurrent findings below were therefore sustained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307144