MOHD EZAQ EKMAL BIN MAHAD v 1. ) Ab Karim Bin Dolmat Sebagai Wakil Diri Kepada Harta Pusaka Salehar Binti Selim 2. ) Kerajaan Negeri Melaka
Catchwords
Land Law — Transfer of land — Form 14A — Material alteration after attestation — Addition of transferee and redistribution of shares after execution — Whether instrument materially different from instrument attested under s 211 National Land Code — Whether re-attestation required — Whether registration founded on insufficient instrument — National Land Code, ss 211, 301, 340(2)(b), 380 Land Law — Indefeasibility of title — Deferred indefeasibility — Immediate transferee — Registration obtained by means of insufficient instrument — Whether immediate transferee acquired indefeasible title — Rectification of register ordered — National Land Code, s 340(2)(b) Land Law — Registrar — Registering authority — Statutory duty — Fitness for registration — Duty to inquire into patent inconsistencies and material alterations appearing on face of instrument — Whether breach of statutory duty established — National Land Code, ss 211, 301 Land Law — Correction of errors — Scope of Registrar’s corrective power — Whether alteration of identity of transferee and quantum of share constituted permissible administrative correction — Requirement for approval of State Director in respect of Land Office title — National Land Code, s 380 Evidence — Fraud — Civil proceedings — Standard of proof — Whether fraud required to be proved beyond reasonable doubt — Whether fraud provable by circumstantial evidence — Whether fraud brought home to registered proprietor Evidence — Documentary evidence — Contemporaneous documents — Evidential value of LHDN adjudication letter — Whether contemporaneous document corroborated plaintiff’s version — Evidence Act 1950, s 114(g) Civil Procedure — Costs — Departure from ordinary rule that costs follow event — Representative defendant sued in capacity as administrator of estate — No finding of personal fraud — Family land dispute — Whether appropriate to order each party bear own costs
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