5.2 Conveyancing (the Deeds' Craft)

Conveyancing defined: the drafting of transaction documents — the instruments that create, transfer and extinguish rights (the non-litigation lawyer's principal craft; the deed as the private law's statute). The general discipline: the parties precisely identified; the recitals (the background story), the operative words (the transaction's core), the covenants, the execution (signatures, witnesses, photos, the registration where compulsorily registrable — the deed- registration law's interface), the stamp duty discipline. The ten prescribed deeds: Sale deed (likhat): the ownership's transfer for price — the property described kitta-wise, the price and payment, the possession delivered, the seller's covenants (title free of encumbrance), the registration (the deed of transfer compulsorily registered); Lease deed: the enjoyment granted for term — the property, the rent, the duration, the covenants (use, maintenance, renewal, termination), the landlord-tenant law's interface; Contract deed: the agreement's instrument — the promises exchanged, the conditions, the consideration, the remedies clauses (the contract law's craft in deed form); Gift deed (dan patra): the ownership's transfer without price — the donor's volition, the acceptance, the delivery, the revocation limits (the gift's essentials in deed form); Will deed (aastaloh): the testamentary disposition — the testator's capacity and free will, the beneficiaries, the executor, the revocation and alteration clauses, the attestation (the succession law's instrument); Adoption deed: the parent-child relationship created — the adopter's and the adoptee's…