Public Notice

Walk past any railway station in Navi Mumbai and you will see a small newspaper advertisement that begins “Notice is hereby given that...” and ends with a lawyer's address. Somebody is buying or mortgaging a flat, and the bank has asked for the title to be cleared. The advertisement asks the whole world to come forward with any claim. Is that advertisement just a formality, or does it do something legally? And how do you draft one that would survive a dispute two years later?

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A public notice is a newspaper (or notice-board) publication, issued in the name of a client by an advocate, calling on everyone to disclose claims against a property or a fact; it creates no right by itself, but it builds the record that the client made every enquiry the law expects.

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