Area of law
Property Law
Land, houses, plots and shops: who owns them, who may live in them, and how they pass to heirs. Disputes often turn on revenue records, so the paperwork matters as much as the argument.
Find Property Law lawyersWhere it is heard
Civil Courts hear title, possession and specific performance. Revenue officers (Tehsildar, Assistant Commissioner) handle mutation and partition under the Land Revenue Act 1967. Tenancy goes to the Rent Tribunal or Rent Controller under provincial rent laws, and illegal dispossession to the Sessions Court under the Illegal Dispossession Act 2005.
Common matters
- Buying and selling: sale deed, registration and mutation (intiqal)
- Partition of inherited land and houses among heirs
- Illegal possession (qabza) and suits for possession
- Eviction of a tenant for unpaid rent or personal need
Papers to gather first
- 1Fard (record of rights) and copies of mutations
- 2Registered sale deed, gift deed or allotment letter
- 3Tenancy agreement and rent receipts
- 4Death certificate and succession papers, for inherited property
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