Law Relating to Transfer of Property and Easement

SNDT Women's University · LL.B. Semester 3 · 3004

Unit I — Module I (2 credits): Concept of Property; General Principles of Transfer

Concept and meaning of property; kinds of property (movable/immovable, tangible/intangible) · Transferability, conditions restricting transfer, definition of transfer, transfer to unborn person and rule against perpetuity, vested and contingent interest, rule of election · Transfer by ostensible owner, feeding the grant by estoppel, lis pendens, fraudulent transfer, part performance

Kinds of property — movable and immovable Definitions
General principles of transfer of property

Unit II — Module II (2 credits): Specific Transfers; Easement Law

Specific transfers: sale, mortgage, charge, lease, exchange, gift, actionable claim · Easement law: nature, characteristics, suspension, revival and extinction; kinds and creation; riparian rights; licence; distinction between easement and licence

Sale [Sections 54 — 57]
Mortgage and Charge [Sections 58 — 104]
Lease [Sections 105 — 117]
Exchange [Sections 118 — 121]
Gift [Section 122 — 129]
Actionable Claims [Sections 130 — 137]
Indian Easements Act, 1882