Case Law Analysis
|Madras High Court
Registration Act & Natural Justice | Probate Not Mandatory for Unregistered Wills in Non-Metro Areas: Madras HC
Madras HC rules that refusal to register a settlement deed based on an unprobated, unregistered will violates natural justice and is legally unsustainable in non-metropolitan areas. The court emphasized that probate is not a prerequisite for will validity outside metro jurisdictions, reinforcing procedural fairness in property registration disputes.