• Agreement among friends to permanently set aside common area in jointly bought undivided agri land

Hi,

6 of us together purchased 12 acres agricultural land from a single vendor, via six separate sale deeds, showing demarcation of our individual holdings.

The land is undivided right now with no road access to individual units

Now we want to make an internal layout among ourselves, leaving aside certain amount of land for internal roads and a small club-house, and re-specifying our boundaries accordingly. (we don't want to go the route of making a panchayat lay-out and gifting away land to panchayat, for fear of panchayat then making our internal roads a public road, or putting other restrictions or constraints on us). 

Can anyone kindly (a) suggest the Document we need to create (MOU? Contract? Agreement?) that would make this internal layout final among ourselves (b) the clauses we would typically put into such a document to ensure permanence of our intended layout.
Asked 6 years ago in Property Law
Religion: Hindu

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You can enter into MOU 

 

2) you should convert land into NA then only you can use land for construction of club house 

 

3) contribution to be made by each land owner has to be specified 

 

4) period within which construction is to be carried out has to be mentioned 

 

5) sanction of plans by panchayat of layout 

 

6) maintenance expenses of roads , club house ti be borne by all owners 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
99790 Answers
8147 Consultations

Execute a Mou through an expert 

An obligatory consent is necessary from the local authorities to get a ‘change of land use.’ An application form has to be sent to the Commissioner of the Land Revenue Department clarifying the reason behind conversion.

Mohammed Mujeeb
Advocate, Hyderabad
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32 Consultations

1. Make a mutual deed of partition whereby re draw the area and allocate the land from your respective share for the purpose of common road.

2. Since it is a private arrangement among 6 plot owners only, the same would be considered as private pathway only and it can not treated as a public road unless it is the only approach way to reach another part of the area from other part of the land.

3. Make the mutual deed of partition registered.  

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
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537 Consultations

You can execute a mou between you parties to agree such terms and keep the space of road between your lands

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
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249 Consultations

1.  Register a Settlement Deed, amongst all the Six persons, incorporating strategic clauses relating to demarcation outlines of the plot, common  amenities etc.... and a drawing of the proposed internal road layout plan (by a registered architect) in the Plot, which should be annexed with the Settlement Deed.  Mention the non-monetary /monetary terms & conditions & other parameters with the same.  This will avoid all futuristic legal disputes amongst the six persons.

Hemant Agarwal
Advocate, Mumbai
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25 Consultations

Dear Client,

Demarcation/specific portion belongs to which owner not in dispute. So the above settlement via MOU will execute between parties on rs. 500 stamp.

 

Yogendra Singh Rajawat
Advocate, Jaipur
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31 Consultations

You all can enter into a joint development MOU wherein leaving space for internal roads club house. Further the agreement as joint development get it registered it would be valid and binding. 

Shubham Jhajharia
Advocate, Ahmedabad
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179 Consultations

Hi,

It is better to prepare one MOU where all the partners are ready and get the same registered with registrar in order to avoid any issues in future. 

Ganesh Singh
Advocate, New Delhi
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16 Consultations

Any such proposed layout has to get an approval from the competent authority.

Alternately you all can draft a mutually agreed partition deed among yourselves in which you can allot the space for internal roads and also allot space for  other proposed amenities which would have contribution from all the shareholders and would be the common property of all the shareholders besides their own individual properties as per the registered partition deed.

The internal roads and the proposed club house also can be shown  as another addition schedule of property in registered  the partition deed being shown as common property belonging to all the shareholders. 

You can first discuss with an engineer or an architecture about this and proceed with the partition among yourselves as suggested. 

You can discuss the subject matter with an experienced local advocate too.

 

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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  1. As you have righty mentioned that you should not include the panchayat in it, otherwise they would definitely put problem for you.
  2. In fact, there is no need to involve them as the land belongs to you all, and if any layout plan need to be passed by the panchayat then also it is their liability to do that, no reason to give certain portion to panchayat.
  3. Yes, you should entered into an MOU stating everything from the time of buying the property till today.
  4. Also make sure that clauses should be such it should only be favouring all, but not any specific more or less.
  5. Rest, there is no end to the clauses to be put in the MOU, it just that you should put in accordance of your need and future possibility of any changes, if any.

Sanjay Baniwal
Advocate, South Delhi
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