Kerala High Court Judgment
Sale Deed – Correction of resurvey number without boundary or extent – changes is a rectification deed, not a fresh sale deed. _ Registration Act – S.78 – Court ruled that correcting an error in the tent, resurvey number of a property, while the boundary, ex- and old survey number remain unchanged, does not constitute a fresh sale deed but should be regarded as a rectification in the sale deed. The purpose of such correction is to rectify a mistake documentation rather than to create a new transaction. Therefore, the registration fee applicable to a rectification deed, rather than the higher fee for a new sale deed, should apply. The Court emphasized that the nature of the correction is purely administrative and does not alter the original terms of the transaction. As a result, treating this correction as a rectification deed ensures that the parties are not unjustly burdened with unnecessary fees.