Practice area
Property & Real Estate
Property cases turn on papers that are often decades old. Ownership is checked and settled before any plan is made — not after a dispute has already begun.
What is handled
What this covers
If your problem is not on this list, still ask. Real cases rarely fit neatly into one box.
- Checking title before you buy
- Sale, gift and settlement deeds
- Registration and drafting of documents
- Partition and ownership cases
- Patta transfer and correcting revenue records
- Disputes with builders over layout and possession
The law
Which laws apply here
Listed so you can read them yourself. Nothing on this page can replace advice given on your own facts.
- Transfer of Property Act, 1882
- Registration Act, 1908
- Specific Relief Act, 1963
- Tamil Nadu Patta Pass Book Act, 1983
Questions
Property questions we are asked
Thirty years. That is the period after which someone who has held land openly can claim it as their own under the Limitation Act, 1963, so anything shorter can hide a claim. Take the encumbrance certificate for the same thirty years and check it against the patta and chitta. Remember that registering a sale deed does not by itself prove the seller owned the land.
No. A patta is a revenue record. It shows who pays the land tax and who is recorded as being in possession. Courts treat it as proof of possession, not of ownership. Ownership comes from the registered sale deeds and other documents in the chain.
Not while the family members are still holding the property jointly, because in law one person holding it counts as all of them holding it. The clock only starts when one of them clearly and openly denies the others their share, and they come to know of it.
Have a property & real estate problem?
The first meeting sorts out the facts and your real options — including when no case needs to be filed at all.