The Weekly Law Reports
[1954] 1 WLR 380
[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
KESARMAL S/O LETCHMAN DAS AND ANOTHER APPELLANTS; AND N. K. V. VALLIAPPA CHETTIAR S/O NAGAPPA CHETTIAR RESPONDENT.
ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL, SUPREME COURT OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA.
1954 Feb. 2.
LORD TUCKER, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM, and MR. L. M. D. DE SILVA.
Malaya
— Land
— Claim to set aside transfer
— Occupation period
— Duress
— Knowledge of duress in transferee to be established
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Titles to Land (Occupation Period) Ordinance, No. 39 of 1949, s. 27 (1) (5)
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Land Code of the Federated Malay States (F.M.S. c. 138), ss. 2, 42.
Duress
— Transfer of land in Malaya
— Transferee's knowledge of duress to be established. “Indefeasible”
— Title to land
— “Not indefeasible”
— Does not mean void.
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