Abdul Malik Ishak J:

This was an originating motion in encl 4 filed by the plaintiff to cancel the Registrar's caveats entered against the plaintiff's lands comprised in PTD 27356 H S(D) 26670 till PTD 27722 H S(D) 27033, Mukim Kluang, Daerah Kluang, Johor totalling 364 lots of lands held in 364 separate titles.

It was not disputed that the plaintiff was the registered proprietor of all that 364 lots of lands.

It was in evidence that the first defendant entered the Registrar's caveats on the plaintiff's lands at the behest of the fourth defendant.

The fourth defendant had made an application for the entry of the Registrar's caveats on the strength of a police report lodged by the third defendant, the director of the second defendant.

The first defendant through Adib Azhari bin Daud deposed an affidavit-in-reply in encl 9 dated 19 March 1997 and there he said that the fourth defendant had intimated that the investigations have not been completed and, consequently, the first defendant could not cancel the Registrar's caveats.

The plaintiff was perturbed at the existence and continuance of the Registrar's caveats on the 364 lots of lands.

The effect of a Registrar's caveat is manifol