Property and Legal Principles of Ownership of Property

*Property and Legal Principles of Ownership of Property*

Citation : *Nagar Nigam Ghaziabad v. Indra Mohan Sachdev [2026] GCtR 171 (Allahabad)*

It is well settled that merely on the basis of payment of house tax of the disputed property, neither any one acquire its ownership nor can proclaim to be its owner, and *merely on the basis that the person is recorded as owner in the property register of Municipal Corporation, does not become the owner of the disputed property*. Such person has to prove his/her ownership in accordance with law.

Where the defendant appellants died during the pendency of appeal, whose legal heirs were not substituted on record, concluded that since the appeal decided after the death of appellants was a nullity, as such, the decree of the trial court in favour of plaintiff was executable. 

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