C.A. No. 007210 / 2011

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In a suit for declaration of title, the plaintiff must succeed on the strength of their own title and not on the weakness of the defendant's case — revenue records and mutation entries, being purely fiscal instruments, neither create nor extinguish title, nor carry presumptive evidentiary value to displace a valid document of title. As analysed on casestatus.in, the principle of *nemo dat quod non habet* further mandates that a vendor can convey no better title than they themselves possess, rendering derivative titles founded on rejected occupancy claims legally untenable.