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Section 48: Priority of rights created by transfer.

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882Central Act · Act 4 of 1882

Where a person purports to create by transfer at different times rights in or over the same immoveable property, and such rights cannot all exist or be exercised to their full extent together, each later created right shall, in the absence of a special contract or reservation binding the earlier transferees, be subject to the rights previously created.

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ActThe Transfer of Property Act, 1882
Section48
Marginal notePriority of rights created by transfer.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

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