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Registration Act Question 1:
Right to take fruits from the trees under the Registration Act, 1908 is :
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Registration Act Question 1 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is Movable Property
Key PointsUnder Section 2 (9) of the Registration Act, 1908 the term “Movable Property” is defined and it includes standing timber, growing crops and grass, fruit upon and juice
in trees, and property of every other description, except immovable property.
Registration Act Question 2:
Match List I and List II and select the right code from the following provisions under the Registration Act, 1908.
| A. Documents of which registration is optional | 1. Section 18 |
| B. Documents containing interlineations, blanks, erasures or alterations | 2. Section 20 |
| C. Documents executed by several persons at different times. | 3. Section 21 |
| D. Description of property and maps or plans. | 4. Section 24 |
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Registration Act Question 2 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 3
Key PointsSection 18 of the Registration Act, 1908 relates to Documents of which registration is optional.
Any of the following documents may be registered under this Act, namely:—
(a) Instruments (other than instruments of gift and wills) which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of a value less then one hundred rupees, to or in immovable property;
(b) instruments acknowledging the receipt or payment of any consideration on account of the creation, declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest;
(c) leases of immovable property for any term not exceeding one year, and leases exempted under section 17;
(cc) instruments transferring or assigning any decree or order of a Court or any award when such decree or order or award 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 a value less
than one hundred rupees, to or in immovable property;
(d) instruments (other than wills) which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or
extinguish any right, title or interest to or in movable property;
(e) wills; and
(f) all other documents not required by section 17 to be registered.
Section 20 of the Registration Act, 1908 relates to Documents containing interlineations, blanks, erasures or alterations.
It states that : (1) The registering officer may in his discretion refuse to accept for registration any document in which any interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration appears, unless the persons executing the document attest with their signatures
or initials such interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration.
(2) If the registering officer registers any such document, he shall, at the time of registering the same, make a note in the register of such interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration.
Section 21 of the Registration Act, 1908 relates to Description of property and maps or plans.
It states that : (1) No non-testamentary document relating to immovable property shall be accepted for registration unless it contains a description of such property sufficient to identify the same.
(2) Houses in towns shall be described as situate on the north or other side of the street or road (which should be specified) to which they front, and by their existing and former occupancies, and by their numbers if the houses in such street or road are numbered.
(3) Other houses and lands shall be described by their name, if any, and as being the territorial division in which they are situate, and by their superficial contents, the roads and other properties on to which they abut, and their existing occupancies, and also, whenever it is practicable, by reference to a Government map or survey.
(4) No non-testamentary document containing a map or plan of any property comprised therein shall be accepted for registration unless it is accompanied by a true copy of the map or plan, or, in case such property is situate in several districts, by such number of true copies of the map or plan as are equal to the number of such districts.
Section 24 of the Registration Act, 1908 relates to Documents executed by several persons at different times.
Where there are several persons executing a document at different times, such document may be presented for registration and re-registration within four months from the date of each execution.
Registration Act Question 3:
Which amongst the following is compulsorily registrable under the Registration Act, 1908?
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Registration Act Question 3 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 4
Key PointsSection 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with Documents of which registration is compulsory.
It states that : (1) The following documents shall be registered, if the property to which they relate is situate in a district in which, and if they have been executed on or after the date on which, Act No. XVI of 1864, or the Indian Registration Act, 1866, or the Indian Registration Act, 1871, or the Indian Registration Act, 1877, or this Act came or comes into force, namely:—
(a) instruments of gift of immovable property;
(b) other non-testamentary instruments which purport or operate 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 one hundred rupees and upwards, to or in immovable property;
(c) non-testamentary instruments which acknowledge the receipt or payment of any consideration
on account of the creation, declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or
interest; and
(d) leases of immovable property from year to year, or for any term exceeding one year, or
reserving a yearly rent;
(e) non-testamentary instruments transferring or assigning any decree or order of a Court or any award when such decree or order or award 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 one hundred rupees and upwards, to or in immovable property:
Provided that the State Government] may, by order published in the Official Gazette, exempt from the operation of this sub-section any lease executed in any district, or part of a district, the terms granted by which do not exceed five years and the annual rents reserved by which do not exceed fifty rupees.
(1A) The documents containing contracts to transfer for consideration, any immovable property for the purpose of section 53A of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (4 of 1882) shall be registered if they have been executed on or after the commencement of the Registration and Other Related laws (Amendment) Act, 2001 (48 of 2001) and if such documents are not registered on or after such commencement, then, they shall have no effect for the purposes of the said section 53A.
(2) Nothing in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) applies to—
(i) any composition deed; or
(ii) any instrument relating to shares in a joint stock Company, notwithstanding that the assets
of such Company consist in whole or in part of immovable property; or
(iii) any debenture issued by any such Company and not creating, declaring, assigning, limiting or extinguishing any right, title or interest, to or in immovable property except in so far as it entitles the holder to the security afforded by a registered instrument whereby the Company has mortgaged, conveyed or otherwise transferred the whole or part of its immovable property or any interest therein to trustees upon trust for the benefit of the holders of such debentures;
(iv) any endorsement upon or transfer of any debenture issued by any such Company; or
(v) any document other than the documents specified in sub-section (1A)] not itself creating, declaring, assigning, limiting or extinguishing any right, title or interest of the value of one hundred rupees and upwards to or in immovable property, but merely creating a right to obtain another document which will, when executed, create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish any such right, title or interest; or
(vi) any decree or order of a Court except a decree or order expressed to be made on a compromise and comprising immovable property other than that which is the subject-matter of the suit or proceeding]; or
(vii) any grant of immovable property by Government; or
(viii) any instrument of partition made by a Revenue-Officer; or
(ix) any order granting a loan or instrument of collateral security granted under the Land
Improvement Act, 1871, or the Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883; or
(x) any order granting a loan under the Agriculturists, Loans Act, 1884, or instrument for
securing the repayment of a loan made under that Act; or
(xa) any order made under the Charitable Endowments Act, 1890 (6 of 1890), vesting any property in a Treasurer of Charitable Endowments or divesting any such Treasurer of any property; or
(xi) any endorsement on a mortgage-deed acknowledging the payment of the whole or any part of the mortgage-money, and any other receipt for payment of money due under a mortgage when the receipt does not purport to extinguish the mortgage; or
(xii) any certificate of sale granted to the purchaser of any property sold by public auction by a Civil or Revenue-Officer.
Explanation.—A document purporting or operating to effect a contract for the sale of immovable
property shall not be deemed to require or ever to have required registration by reason only of the fact that
such document contains a recital of the payment of any earnest money or of the whole or any part of the
purchase money.
(3) Authorities to adopt a son, executed after the 1st day of January, 1872, and not conferred by a will, shall also be registered.
Registration Act Question 4:
The term "Lease" has been defined under which Section of the Registration Act, 1908?
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Registration Act Question 4 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 3
Key PointsUnder Section 2(7) of the Registration Act, 1908 the term “Lease” has been defined and it includes a counterpart, kabuliyat, and undertaking to cultivate or occupy, and an agreement to lease.
Registration Act Question 5:
Which of the following comes under the term "immovable property" as defined under the Registration Act, 1908?
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Registration Act Question 5 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 4
Key PointsUnder the Registration Act, 1908 the term “Immovable Property” is defined under Section 2(6) and it includes land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights, ferries, fisheries or any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, but not standing timber, growing crops nor grass.
Registration Act Question 6:
Which section of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office?
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Registration Act Question 6 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 3
Key PointsSection 12 of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office.
It states that : When any Sub-Registrar is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Registrar of the district appoints in this behalf shall be Sub-Registrar during such absence, or until the vacancy is filled up.
Registration Act Question 7:
Where there are several persons executing a document at different times, such document may be presented for registration and re-registration within how many months from the date of each execution under the Registration Act, 1908?
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Registration Act Question 7 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 2
Key PointsSection 24 of the Registration Act, 1908 relates to Documents executed by several persons at different times.
It states that : Where there are several persons executing a document at different times, such document may be presented for registration and re-registration within four months from the date of each execution.
Registration Act Question 8:
Under section 2(10) of the Registration Act, 1908, the word "representative" means and includes :
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Registration Act Question 8 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is includes the guardian of a minor.
Key PointsUnder the Registration Act, 1908, the term "representative: includes the guardian of a minor and the committee or other legal curator of a lunatic or idiot.
Registration Act Question 9:
Which section of the Registration Act lists the documents of which registration is optional?
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Registration Act Question 9 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is Section 18
Key PointsSection 18 of the Registration Act, 1908 relates to Documents of which registration is optional.
It states that : Any of the following documents may be registered under this Act, namely,
(a) instruments (other than instruments of gifts and wills) which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest whether vested or contingent, of a value less than one hundred rupees, to or in immovable property;
(b) instruments acknowledging the receipt of payment of any consideration on account of the creation, declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest;
(c) leases of immovable property for any term not exceeding one year, and leases exempted under section 17;
(cc) [instruments transferring or assigning any decree or order of a Court or any award when such decree or order or award 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 a value less than one hundred rupees, to or in immovable property;
(d) instruments (other than wills) which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish any right, title or interest to or in movable property;
(e) wills; and
(f) all other documents not required by section 17 to be registered.
Registration Act Question 10:
Match List I and List II in accordance to the relevant provisions under the Registration Act, 1908.
| A. Deposit of Wills | 1. Section 23-A |
| B. Re-registration of certain documents | 2. Section 42 |
| C. Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office | 3. Section 6 |
| D. Registrars and Sub-registrars | 4. Section 10 |
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Registration Act Question 10 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 4
Key PointsSection 23-A of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with Re-registration of certain documents.
It states that : Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, if in any case a document requiring registration has been accepted for registration by a Registrar or Sub-Registrar from a person not duly empowered to present the same, and has been registered, any person claiming under such document may, within four months from his first becoming aware that the registration of such document is invalid, present such document or cause the same to be presented, in accordance with the provisions of Part VI for re-registration in the office of the Registrar of the district in which the document was originally registered; and upon the Registrar being satisfied that the document was so accepted for registration from a person not duly empowered to present the same, he shall proceed to the re-registration of the document as if it had not been previously registered, and as if such presentation for re-registration was a presentation for registration made within the time allowed therefor under Part IV, and all the provisions of this Act, as to registration of documents, shall apply to such re-registration; and such document, if duly re-registered in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall be deemed to have been duly registered for all purposes from the date of its original registration:
Provided that, within three months from the twelfth day of September, 1917, any person claiming under a document to which this section applies may present the same or cause the same to be presented for re-registration in accordance with this section, whatever may have been the time when he first became aware that the registration of the document was invalid.
Section 6 of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with Registrars and Sub-Registrars.
It states that : The State Government may appoint such persons, whether public officers or not, as it thinks proper, to be Registrars of the several districts, and to be Sub-Registrars of the several sub-districts, formed as aforesaid, respectively.
Section 10 of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office.
It states that : (1) When any Registrar, other than the Registrar of a district including a Presidency-town, is absent otherwise than on duty in his district, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Inspector General appoints in this behalf, or in default of such appointment, the Judge of the District Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Registrars office is situate, shall be the Registrar during such absence or until the State Government fills up the vacancy.
(2) When the Registrar of a district including a Presidency-town is absent otherwise than on duty in his district, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Inspector General appoints in this behalf shall be the Registrar during such absence, or until the State Government fills up the vacancy.
Section 42 of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with Deposit of wills.
It states that : Any testator may, either personally or by duly authorised agent, deposit with any Registrar his will in a sealed cover superscribed with the name of the testator and that of his agent (if any) and with a statement of the nature of the document.