Delhi High Court: better possessory title beats an occupant with no better right
· Reported by LiveLaw
The Court applied the rule that possession is good against the whole world except the person with a better right, and let a plaintiff tracing title from the original allottee recover the property.
What this changes for a title check
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The reported holding applies a familiar rule: possession is good against the whole world except someone with a better right. A plaintiff who could only trace title back to the original allottee, without a complete registered chain, still recovered the property from an occupant who had no competing ownership claim of their own. For a title check, this affects how you frame an unauthorised occupant found on a property. If they cannot show any better right of their own, they are best treated as an eviction problem rather than a title defect, even a possessory chain short of a perfect paper trail can be enough to remove them.
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