Benamidar

Benamidar, a benamidar is an ostensible owner and if a person purchases from a benamidar, the real owner cannot recover unless he shows that the purchaser had actual or constructive notice of the real title. But from this it does not follow that the benamidar has real title to the property, he is merely an ostensible owner thereof, Controller of Estate Duty v. Aloke Mitra, AIR 1981 SC 102 (111): (1981) 2 SCC 121. [Estate Duty Act, 34 of 1953]