Section 3 of Transfer of Property Act provides for a concept called Notice which in simple sense called Knowledge. The Notice can be of two types:
- Actual Notice;
- Constructive Notice.
Actual notice means a direct notice or express knowledge where a person has been information either in written or oral form, it is actual notice but the information must be definite knowledge not hearsay.
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