Family settlement – The true principle that emerges can be stated thus: If the arrangement of compromise is one under which a person having an absolute title to the property transfers his title in some of the items thereof to the others, the formalities prescribed by law have to be complied with, since the transferees derive their respective title through the transferor. If, on the other hand, the parties set up competing titles and the differences are resolved by the compromise, there is no question of one deriving title from the other
Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 91 , Registration Act, 1908 — Section 17, 17(1), 49 - Family settlement - The ...
