Transfer of Property Act, 1882
53A. Part performance
Where any person contracts to transfer for consideration any
immovable property by writing signed by him or on his behalf from which the
terms necessary to constitute the transfer can be ascertained with reasonable
certainty, and the transferee has, in part performance of the contract, taken
possession of the property or any part thereof, or the transferee, being
already in possession, continues in possession in part performance of the
contract and has done some act in furtherance of the contract, and the
transferee has performed or is willing to perform his part of the contract,
then, notwithstanding that the contract, though required to be registered, has
not been registered, or, where there is an instrument of transfer, that the transfer
has not been completed in the manner prescribed therefor by the law for the
time being in force, the transferor or any person claiming under him shall be
debarred from enforcing against the transferee and persons claiming under him
any right in respect of the property of which the transferee has taken or
continued in possession, other than a right expressly provided by the terms of
the contract:
PROVIDED that nothing in this section shall affect the
rights of a transferee for consideration who has no notice of the contract or
of the part performance thereof.
Comment : Since the appellant's claims is founded
on Section 53-A, it goes without saying that he admits by implication that he
came into possession of the land lawfully under the agreement and continued to
remain in possession till date of the suit. Thereby the plea of adverse
possession is not available to the appellant. Mohan Lal v. Mira Abdul Gaffar
AIR 1996 SUPREME COURT 910