Registration of Documents with Law Relating to Unregistered Documents

*  What is the effect of Registration & Non- Registration of Documents?
* Whether a complaint before Consumer Forum lies against registering officers?
* What is the remedy against refusal of registration?
* What should be done when attesting witnesses are dead?
* How to value immovable property?
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Description
The people's desire to hold and enjoy immovable property-land, building/s or fixtures is limitless. Such desire is two-fold. One set of people want to achieve  the desire or goal in lawful means, by investing their lawful fortune which they have derived in their lifetime by doing hard work, but, another set of people  without having any such fortune out of hard work in lawful means want to achieve such desire in an illegal and unethical manner, with the result, there have been instances of fraudulent transactions of immovable properties. The Registration Act, 1908 (came into force on 01-01- 1909), was enacted with the  intention of providing orderliness, discipline and public notice in regard to transactions relating to immovable property and protection from fraud and forgery  of documents of transfer. This is achieved by requiring compulsory registration of certain types of documents and providing for consequences of non-registration. The Act after many amendments, has now thrown up sea-saw situations played by human ingenuity. Section 17 of the Registration Act  clearly provides that any document (other than testamentary instruments) which purports or operates to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish whether  in present or in future "any right, title or interest" whether vested or contingent of the value of Rs.100 and upwards to or in immovable property. ......................................................................................................................................
Table of Contents
Part I    Contextual Statutes
Part II   Registration of Documents
Part III  Unregistered Documents
Part IV  Stamp Papers
Part V  Valuation of Immovable Property
Part VI  Steps to be taken for Registration of Property
Appendix I
2 Indian Registration Act, 1908
3. Registration Fees as applicable in certain States
Appendix II
Registration Fees
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Maharashtra
Union Territory of Delhi
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Author Details
Harish Mathur Advocate