Transfer of Property Act

Short title.— This Act may be called the Transfer of Property Act, 1882. Commencement.— It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1882.Extent.— It extends in the first instance to the whole… 

Repeal of Acts. Saving of certain enactments, incidents, rights, liabilities, etc.— In the territories to which this Act extends for the time being the enactments specified in the Schedule hereto annexed shall be repealed to… 

Interpretation-clause.— In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,— “immoveable property” does not include standing timber, growing crops or grass: “instrument”, means a non-testamentary instrument: “attested”, in relation to an… 

Enactments relating to contracts to be taken as part of Contract Act and supplemental to the Registration Act.— The chapters and sections of this Act which relate to contracts shall be taken as part of… 

“Transfer of property” defined.— In the following sections “transfer of property” means an act by which a living person conveys property, in present or in future, to one or more other living persons, or to… 

What may be transferred.— Property of any kind may be transferred, except as otherwise provided by this Act or by any other law for the time being in force. (a) The chance of an heir-apparent… 

Persons competent to transfer.— Every person competent to contract and entitled to transferable property, or authorised to dispose of transferable property not his own, is competent to transfer such property either wholly or in part… 

Operation of transfer.— Unless a different intention is expressed or necessarily implied, a transfer of property passes forthwith to the transferee all the interest which the transferor is then capable of passing in the property,… 

Oral transfer.— A transfer of property may be made without writing in every case in which a writing is not expressly required by law.