A family settlement deed names every person who claims an interest, states the property or business being settled, allots a defined share to each party and records that each party gives up claims over the shares allotted to the others. The Registration Act does not mention "family settlement" as a...
Read Complete Guide →Section 1(1) names the law the Registration Act, 1908. Section 1(2) says the Act extends to the whole of India, but the State Government may exclude any districts or tracts of country from its operation. Section 1(3) says it came into force on the first day of January, 1909. The copy shows words...
The definitions apply "unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context". "Immovable property" includes land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights, ferries, fisheries and any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, but not standing...
The State Government appoints the Inspector General of Registration (s.3), forms and alters districts and sub-districts (s.5), appoints Registrars and Sub-Registrars (s.6), sets up their offices (s.7) and may appoint Inspectors of Registration offices (s.8). A Sub-Registrar whose office is...
When a Registrar is absent or his office is vacant, the person appointed by the Inspector General acts (and, for a district outside a Presidency-town, the District Judge acts if no one is appointed). When a Sub-Registrar is absent or his office is vacant, the person the Registrar appoints acts. A...
The State Government must provide the books every registering officer needs, with consecutively numbered printed pages and the page count certified on the title page (s.16(1), (2)). Every Registrar's office gets a fire-proof box, and the State must make safe provision for the records in each...
If a document is in a language the registering officer does not understand and which is not commonly used in the district, he shall refuse to register it unless it comes with a true translation into a language commonly used in the district and a true copy (s.19). If a document has an...
A non-testamentary document relating to immovable property will not be accepted for registration unless it describes the property sufficiently to identify it (s.21(1)). Town houses are described by street and occupancy; other houses and land by name, division, area, abutting roads and properties...
Where a document requiring registration was accepted by a Registrar or Sub-Registrar from a person not duly empowered to present it, and was registered, any person claiming under it may, within four months from first becoming aware that the registration is invalid, present it again for...
Section 24: where several persons sign at different times, the document may be presented for registration and re-registration within four months from the date of each execution. Section 26: a document executed outside India by all or any of the parties, presented late, can be accepted if the...
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