Registration Act, 1908–Sec. 17–Code of Civil Procedure, 1908–Order 26, Rule 10-A r/w. Sec. 45, Evidence Act & Order 8, Rule 1A–Rejection of application with the view that the document in question was not admissible in evidence as it was unregistered–Appreciation of–Suit for partition–Petitioner himself had referred the document as family agreement in his written statement–He cannot be allowed to go back from the stand taken in written statement–Further, from bare reading of the document, it is clear that the intention of the document was not to reproduce any earlier oral agreement but it has been specified to arrive as a family agreement–Held, application was rightly rejected as the document was required to be registered compulsorily.
