Law & Justice's Textbook on The Transfer of Property by Anjay Kumar Sharma

Law & Justice Publishing Co. publishes Textbook on The Transfer of Property by Anjay Kumar Sharma, Senior Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi — a student and examination text on the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, built around the visual devices that make a dense statute learnable.

The Transfer of Property Act is one of the hardest papers in the LL.B. course for a particular reason: the sections are short, abstract and heavily cross-referenced, and the difference between a sale, an exchange, a gift, a lease, a licence, a mortgage and a charge turns on distinctions a student has to hold in mind all at once. This book is written to that problem — it is organised to be compared, charted and revised rather than read straight through.

What the book gives you

• Flow charts — the operation of a provision set out as a sequence of steps and branches, so the conditions and exceptions are visible at once.
• Tables summarising the provisions and their requirements.
• One-liners — the proposition of each section reduced to a single sentence for last-minute revision.
• Comparative charts — sale against exchange, lease against licence, mortgage against charge, gift against will, and the other distinctions examiners return to every year.
• One-word substitution of sections — a label for each section, which is how section numbers are actually remembered under exam pressure.
• Leading cases at a glance — the authorities that must be cited, with their propositions.
• Previous years' questions with hints — past university and competitive examination questions, with guidance on how to approach each.

Subject matter covered

• Scope of the Act, movable and immovable property, and the meaning of "transfer of property".
• Transfers of property by act of parties — who may transfer, what may be transferred, and the conditions attached.
• The rule against perpetuities, vested and contingent interests, conditional transfers and the doctrine of election.
• Doctrines — lis pendens, fraudulent transfer, part performance, feeding the grant by estoppel, and the transfer by ostensible owner.
• Sales of immovable property — rights and liabilities of buyer and seller, and the marshalling of securities.
• Mortgages and charges — the kinds of mortgage, redemption and foreclosure, priority, subrogation and marshalling.
• Leases — creation, duration, rights and liabilities of lessor and lessee, determination and holding over, and the distinction from a licence.
• Exchanges, gifts and actionable claims.

Who should buy this book

• LL.B. and B.A. LL.B. students taking Property Law or Transfer of Property as a paper — written by a Delhi University faculty member to that syllabus.
• Judicial service aspirants preparing for Civil Judge (PCS-J) and Higher Judicial Service examinations, where the Act is a standing part of the civil law paper.
• Candidates for AIBE and other law competitive examinations.
• Young advocates who want the distinctions and leading cases in one compact place before a property matter.
• Teachers and coaching faculty looking for charts and comparative material to use in class.