Revenue Entries Do Not Confer Title & No Legal Right Arises from Mere Name In Records: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court reiterated that the mere presence of a person’s name in revenue records does not confer ownership or create any enforceable legal right over immovable property.

The Court clarified that revenue entries are maintained only for fiscal purposes and cannot be treated as proof of title.

The Court noted that the plaintiff herself admitted the existence of an earlier settlement deed in favour of another defendant, thereby negating any subsisting cause of action. 

It held that contradictory pleadings in the plaint were fatal and that the proper remedy, if aggrieved, was to file a suit for declaration challenging the settlement deeds.

[Beverley Singh v. Tejinder Singh & Anr.]