RECORD OF RIGHTS

DEFINITION

• Ownership and use of a particular parcel of land can be ascertained and guaranteed, if the land records are kept and the
laws governing land relationships are published. The land records are ascertaining the state of ownership and property
rights. In land deals investigation of the land records is essential to ascertain who the actual owner is.

• Record of Right is land record where all sorts of right and liabilities in respect of every piece of land are registered.
RECORD OF RIGHTS
• Information available in record of rights:-

1. Names of all persons who are acquired some rights in the land, nature and limits of their rights and conditions under which
the rights are acquired by them. Rent or revenue required to pay by them.

2. Details of charges of attachment and decrees under the order of civil court or revenue authorities
3. Details of loan taken by the occupant
4. If land is classified as a “fragment” under the section 6 of the Bombay prevention of fragmentation and consolidation of
holding Act 1947, the same is noted in this record.

5. Easement, such as right of way is entered in this record.

PROCEDURE OF CHANGE IN RIGHTS

• Any person acquiring by succession,  survivorship,  inheritance, partition, purchase mortgage, gift, lease or otherwise, any
right as holder, occupant , owner, mortgagee , land lord, Government lessee or tenant of the land has obligation   to report
in writing his acquisition of such right  to the Talathi within three months from the date of such acquisition.

• When any document is registered under Registration Act 1908, creating any right on land, registering officer has to send
intimation to the Talathi and Tahasildar in the first week of each month in respect of documents registered in the preceding
month.

• After receipt of acquisition report from the person or receipt of intimation from the registering officer, Talathi has to make
entry of the same in the registered of mutation. To safeguard interest of the person acquiring right or intend to acquire
right in the land Talathi has to write mutation number on record of right by pencil. He has to post up complete copy of the
mutation entry in a conspicuous in the Chavdi. Also he has to give written intimation to all persons whose names appeared
on record of rights, register of mutation and to any other person to whom he has reason to believe that they are interested
therein. Circle inspector has to certify the mutation entry after verifying correctness of the entry. Talathi has to correct
relevant village forms and their abstract in accordance with the certified entry.

• Where collector‘s permission is required to obtain before acquiring right, person has to apply in prescribed form to the
collector. Where right is acquired without permission, Talathi has to record this fact in the register of mutation. Right so
acquired will be treated as a null and void.
7/12 EXTRACT
• Information Included in 7/12 Extract
• The 7/12 extract contains the following information about the land:

• Survey number of land

• Area of the land – Fit for cultivation
• Changes in ownership
• Mutation numbers
• Type of land (agricultural or non-agricultural)
• Type of irrigation (irrigated type or rain-fed type)
• Details pending loans for buying seeds, pesticides or fertilizers
• Information about the type of crops planted in the last cultivating season
• Details of pending litigations
• Details of tax paid and unpaid