Description of Property

Identification or Description of Property

The property shall be legibly and crisply described in all the documents clearly without giving any ambiguity. The property shall be divided into following items:

o   Land

o   Building

o   Apartment (Flat)

o   Facilities

Each and every item of the above shall be clearly described.

The Land can be identified by its address. But address is described in various ways. They are :

o        Postal department address

o        Revenue department address

o        Local administration department address

o        Registration department address

The postal address is as usual as ordinary comprising of Door number, plot number, street number or name, area or locality name, village or post office, district, etc.

For example the land with door #11, plot #1324 situated at 18^th street, Poompuhar Nagar, Kolathur post, Chennai – 600 099 is a type of describing a land by its postal address.

Another way of identifying the land by its postal address is Land bearing door #14 and plot # 816 of Jain street of Karanthai of Thanjavur 613 002.

Describing a land with Revenue departmental terms is to furnish the survey number (Rural Survey, R.S.), village number, village name, Taluk name, District. If the land is situated in a town, it can be described by giving Town survey number, Block number, ward number, division name, taluk name and district.

For example,  the land comprised in the survey #234 of 65, Kathirvedu village, Madhavaram taluk, Thiruvallur district. If the land is in town or city it can be described like the plot bearing the survey # T.S.#816, ward-I, Block-5 of Thanjavur town, Thanjavur taluk, Thanjavur district.

After describing the land the type of land whether it is agricultural land, commercial land, industrial land or residential land are to be described. And then the extent of land is to be mentioned in sq. ft or sq. m or in both and then the kind of transfer whether it is undivided or full extent is also to be mentioned. It can be identified by its boundaries.

The land bounded on the

North   by   Plot No.20,                             South   by    Plot No.22

East     by    Survey No.183/14,       West    by   Road

and then its dimensions are to be mentioned as follows:

 Measuring:

    on South     –   72  ft. 

    on North     –   71  ft. 

    on East       –    34  ft. 

   on West     –  34 ft. admeasuring 2431 Sq.ft

In similar way, a building also has to be described.

First the land has to be described in all the possible ways of address and then about the building regarding its extent, number of floors, type of flooring, type of ceiling/ roof, etc. The number of electrical points, availability of motor, pumps and compound wall, fencing, appurtenances, well, septic tank, car park, sump, electrical service connection, water and sewerage connection, its tax provisions, etc also may be described.

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