7.2 Land Revenue Act, 2034 (1977) — The Registry-Revenue Regime

The Act's purpose: the registry-and-revenue administration — the everyday machinery through which the property system operates: The Land Revenue Offices (Malpot Adda): the district-level registry-cum-revenue authority — the registers' maintenance, the transactions' registration, the certificates' issue, the revenue's collection; The lalpurja system: the ownership certificate — the register's face to the holder; the certificate's evidentiary primacy (the presumption of registered ownership); the duplicate-and- reissue machinery; The deed registration (jalani) regime: the rajinama family's registration (U2/U4.10's doctrine) — the process (presentation, verification, fees, execution before the officer, the register's entry, the new certificate's issue); the office's verification duties (title, encumbrances, lis pendens, ceiling compliance, identity-and-capacity — the minors' and joint owners' consents); The mutation (namasari) machinery: the register's succession update on death; the inheritance entries; the court-decree transcriptions — the register kept current with the law's operations; Land revenue assessment and collection: the revenue dues on holdings (the tax the raikar tenure owes); the valuation basis; the exemptions (the guthi lands' remissions in defined classes); the recovery machinery; The registers' public character: the public's inspection and the certified copies — the publicity function (U2's registration spine) administered here; The correction machinery's interface: the Malpot and survey offices' respective correction jurisdictions — the record-error litigation's allocation. The critical study: the Malpot office as the property system's chokepoint — the everyday corruption-and-delay critiques;…