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Registration Act Question 1:
Under which section of the Registration Act, 1908 the power of Registrar to superintend and control Sub-Registrars is mentioned?
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Registration Act Question 1 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 4
Key PointsSection 68 of the Registration Act, 1908 provides for Power of Registrar to superintend and control Sub-Registrars.
It states that : (1) Every Sub-Registrar shall perform the duties of his office under the superintendence and control of the Registrar in whose district the office of such Sub-Registrar is situate.
(2) Every Registrar shall have authority to issue (whether on complaint or otherwise) any order consistent with this Act which he considers necessary in respect of any act or omission of any SubRegistrar subordinate to him or in respect of the rectification of any error regarding the book or the office in which any document has been registered.
Registration Act Question 2:
The term “District Court” under the Registration Act, 1908 includes the
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Registration Act Question 2 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 1
Key PointsUnder Section 2(4) of the Registration Act, 1908 the term “District Court” is defined and it includes the High Court in its ordinary original civil jurisdiction.
Registration Act Question 3:
Which part of the Registration Act, 1908 provides for Deposit of Wills?
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Registration Act Question 3 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 3
Key PointsPart IX of the Registration Act, 1908 provides for Deposit of Wills.
Registration Act Question 4:
Which section of the Registration Act, 1908 provides for every person presenting any document at the proper registration office shall affix his passport size photograph and fingerprints to the document?
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Registration Act Question 4 Detailed Solution
The correct answer is OPTION 2
Key PointsSection 32 A of the Registration Act, 1908 provides for Compulsory affixing of photograph, etc.
It states that : Every person presenting any document at the proper registration office under section 32 shall affix his passport size photograph and fingerprints to the
document:
Provided that where such document relates to the transfer of ownership of immovable property, the passport size photograph and fingerprints of each buyer and seller of such property mentioned in the document shall also be affixed to the document.
Registration Act Question 5:
Right to take fruits from the trees under the Registration Act, 1908 is :
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Registration Act Question 5 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 6:
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 6 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 7:
Which amongst the following is compulsorily registrable under the Registration Act, 1908?
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Registration Act Question 7 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 8:
The term "Lease" has been defined under which Section of the Registration Act, 1908?
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Registration Act Question 8 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 9:
Which of the following comes under the term "immovable property" as defined under the Registration Act, 1908?
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Registration Act Question 9 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 10:
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 10 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.