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Under Section 32 of the Registration Act, 1908, a document is presented for registration by a person who is NEITHER an executant, NOR a claimant under it, NOR a representative or assign of such person, NOR an agent duly authorised. The registration that follows is:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B.
1. Section 32 lists the persons who may present a document — executant or claimant, his representative or assign, or his agent duly authorised by a special power of attorney.
2. Presentation by anyone outside this list is "wholly inoperative".
3. The Supreme Court held in Kishore Chandra Singh v. Ganesh Prashad Bhagat, AIR 1954 SC 316, that registration on such presentation is void.
4. The lesson notes Sections 31, 88 and 89 as the limited statutory exceptions; ratification by the executant is not among them.
_Source: ICSI CS Executive Paper 1 (Jurisprudence, Interpretation & General Laws) — Lesson 15: Registration Act, 1908, pp. 375-388._
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