Legal questions on Property Law

Rented shop

In the year 1987 my father took 2 shops on rent from a Mehant(priest of religion) due to which the rent amount was quite less. In year 2005 both parties agreed and had an agreement to pay certain amount to buy the shops from which half the amount was paid. Now both my father and Mehant both died in year 2012 and 2009 respectively. Now the children of mehant are asking us to vacate the shop we ...

Owner not returning security deposit.

I have the following situation and looking to see what are my options: I was renting a place in Domlur 5th Main for almost a year and moved out of the builder floor after giving 2 months’ notice. The landlord stays in Yeshwantpur and he informed me that he will settle the amount of 15k of the deposit that I paid him within a week. Since I had already booked another place I had to leave a...

Registered Power of Attorney issued for sale of house

My father along with our family have living in a house which was on my Grandmother's name since last 25 years and the whole house is occupied by us. Recently I came to know that my uncle through my grand mother's Registered power of attorney issued to him to sell the house had sold off the house 13 years ago in 2005 which is still occupied by us and the owner legally has not claimed the house t...

Cancellation of notary agreement for land

Sir, My father had done land deal with a party via notary agreement on 13.10.16.Bayanya of 30lakhs recived on the date of notary agreement. It is mentioned in the agreement that 62.8 lakhs will be paid on 15.12.16.rest balance i. e. 2.7crore will be paid at the time of registery on or before 15.1.18. But party not paid 62.8 lakhs on date mentioned in notery agreement due to demonitization i...

Is it legal for a neighbour to extend their metal roof (inclined) to a large area over my terrace

A neighbour to my residence in Kolkata has extended a metal roofing, which is inclined, to a large area hovering over my terrace in way that rain water slides down the roof, down-pouring large volumes of water in the middle of my terrace. Also, is it legal for them to open a window on their wall adjoining my terrace in the direction overlooking my terrace? We took advise from an informal m...

Acquiring Father's Brother's Property who is expired

Hi, I am from Karnataka. My question is we have ancestral property which was acquired by my grand father's grand father. My grand father had two brother's one of them sold his share to third party. The second brother of grand father's property is in his son's name and son (For easy I will call father's step brother) expired around 30 years back. This son didn't had kids and his wife is stil...

Resale Flat Booking at Kandivli

Hello Sir, We had decided to buy a flat through a broker and we had finalized it with the initial payment of Rs. 51000/- via cheque from my wife's account. This deal happened in November 2017, stating that we would be doing full white payment and everything would be according to the signing of documents. We prepared a MOU which the vendor did not accept and made 3 revision thereafter which was...

Property Partition

My father had owned solely a land estate where we all lived. We are two brothers and three daughters.Before his death only,due to family tension I reconstructed made a seperate house on the same said land according to my father who had made his will then to distribute the land equally between two brothers but when the partition of land was about to take place ,my brother did not accept his shar...

Legal attachment on women land

Sir/Madam,my aunt age is 58 and she is paralysis patient.she is having land of 450square yards and the same is on dispute,she has taken some amount from 2 neighbour for daily maintenance and failed to. Repay due to non income person.The 2 lenders have filed case on available land on Jan2016 for Rs.6 Lakhs and 4 Lakh ,land value Rs.4 lakh,am ready to settle the amount because the land is only so...

Relative added my name in a legal case

Hi, I am a student living in USA and my uncle forcing us to sell our apartment to him. Our apartment is right next to his apartment and he is been taking care of it for us. 2 tenants has been living in this apartment( his friends) and he been collecting rents from them and not giving us since last 3 years, we live in different town. the apartment is in Delhi. It was our fault that we never fo...

Undivided share among co owners can be made sole ownership to each other

Dear Legal advisors, I have bought a vacant land having an extent of 800 square feet together with 50% undivided share and interest in common passage (corresponds to106 sq.feet). Altogether having an extent of 906 sq feet (800 sq feet + 106 sq ft undivided share in common passage). The seller who sold me told that I am the sole owner for 106 sq feet and to the passage which is next to my...

How to get our part of land ?

I had grandmother died without will and on 7/12 name of owner is of my big uncle ie eldest son of grandmom . There are 3 sons 2 daughter. I am the smallest son's son. Since my big uncle's name is on 7/12 as owner,my question is how do my father get his share. What should we do.Should we go to court . There is a thing called tantamuktee kendra but it requires sign of people name shared on 7/12 s...

Property Rights

My grandfather have 3 sons. Elder son was married and after a years he become a father of a son. The Second son also married and he become a father of 2 sons. The 3rd son of my grandfather was still unmarried. My aunt (wife of 1st son of my grand pa) was married with my uncle (3rd son of my grandfather) with taking a divorce from her first husband i.e. 1st son of my grandfather. After the marri...

Muslim Personal Law regarding property rights for wife of second marriage.

Good day! I am writing this letter on behalf of my friend. He is an Indian citizen(Muslim).He has one sister who is married and settled in Muscat. After 3 years of the death of his mother, his father remarried to a financially poor lady under pressure of his relatives. Even the marriage was not informed to my friend or his only sibling. Later when they know about that there where some verbal...

Ancestral property demarcation

Suppose a father has 100 sqfeet property, AFTER his death, his two sons divided the property(brother A )55 sqfeet and (brother B) 45 sqfeet . but THEY demarcated the property with extra some point like-- 1)east side is for A and west is for B 2****)from mango tree to coconut tree for A and coconut tree to neem tree for B. (THIS IS the FRONT DEMARKATION of that property ) after 70 years. "A" ...

Who can be considered as legal hiers

My father bought 2.5 acres of land in 1998, it is actually a 300 acres of land which was divided in between several brothers, but the dividation is not done on paper but orally, the land that we bought, is road touch and so we also payed high for it, the land is registered in my mothers name, with it's demarcations mentioned in the document, the document also contains signs of the person who so...

Tenant is not ready to leave my house

Hi All, I have a house in Delhi which is been given on rent to 4 people bachelors (2 Girls & 2 Boys) in July 2017 and they claim themselves brother sisters. When i asked for ID proof and agreement they use to ignore things. Had to give them reminder for the rent all the time. Also there was some issue with the electricity connection (which i was already struggling). They people were always c...

My part of the farmland is being taken by the Govt for 4 lane highway construction | Jharkhand

Dear All, My father has farmland in Jharkhand, Sahibganj dist.. 2 years back the narrow street was proposed to be transformed into Highway and this year it has been proposed to further extend to 4 lane highway road. Our property is on both side of the road and around 1.1 acres will be taken by the govt for that purpose. My father along with few others facing the same issue reached out to Hig...

Cancellation of Apartment Buyers Agreement after 80% payment in Godrej 101, Gurgaon

Hi, I will be grateful if I can get some guidance on this. I had booked an apartment in Godrej 101, Gurgaon couple of year back. I have paid 80% of cost of property by now. I now wish to cancel my booking but Godrej is enforcing a cancellation fee of 20% cost of property + 18% GTS (on 20% cost of property as its their profit after cancellation) + all taxes paid till date. I have read th...

Refund after Cancellation of Alloted flat by Promoter

I have booked small 2 BHK flat in Akshaya Tango project(Chennai) in Feb 17. I was shown the size of each rooms/bathroom/kitchen in the flat in their booklet. Based on that i gave them 20% of amount for allotment. Allotment was done in Mar'17 and got the letter from builder that so and so flat has been alloted to you. Post that I got the entire agreement letter at home and in that i found that t...