The assignees of an unregistered 1995 assignment of a decree for specific performance sought execution. The judgment-debtors\u2019 legal heirs objected on the ground that the assignment was unregistered and therefore unenforceable. The Executing Court accepted this objection relying on K. Bhaskaram \u00a0v. Mohammad Moulana (died) and others \u00a0AIR 2005 AP 524 holding that the assignment of a decree involving immovable property requires compulsory registration under Section 17(1)(e). On revision, the High Court reversed the Executing Court\u2019s order. On appeal, the Supreme Court held that a decree for specific performance does not create or transfer any right, title or interest in immovable property; rights arise only when a registered sale deed is executed pursuant to the decree. The contract of sale subsists even after a decree, and a decree for specific performance is in the nature of a \u201cpreliminary decree\u201d which merely enables the decree-holder to obtain a sale deed through the court. Since the decree itself does not purport to create, declare, assign, limit, or extinguish any right or interest in immovable property, Section 17(1)(e) is not attracted. Consequently, an instrument assigning such a decree does not require registration. The Court approved the Bombay High Court view in Amol v. Deorao \u00a02011 SCC OnLine Bom 11 \u00a0and overruled the contrary view in K. Bhaskaram, and further held that Order 21 Rule 16 CPC permits execution by an assignee of a decree. Upholding the High Court, the Supreme Court held that the assignment deed \u00a0was valid even without registration and execution could not be denied on that ground.(CA No. 13835 of 2025 (SLP (C ) No. 3532 of 2028 , \u00a0Dt. \u00a019.11.2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Indian Registration Act, 1908
\nS:17: Documents of which registration is compulsory – Assignment of decree for specific performance \u2013Decree for specific performance does not create or transfer any right, title or interest in immovable property \u2013 Assignment of such decree is not an instrument falling under Section 17(1)(e)- Assignment deed was valid even without registration and execution could not be denied on that ground . [S. 17(1)( c) , Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 , Order 21,Rule 16 ] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allied-laws"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-eVN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57400,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57399\/revisions\/57400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}