3 Registration and Documentation of Property Transactions in Nepal

The machinery: the Land Revenue Offices (Malpot Adda) — the district-level registry-cum- revenue authority under the Land Revenue Act, 2034 — maintaining the parcel registers (kittanapi, created under the Land Measurement and Survey Act, 2019's cadastral surveys), issuing ownership certificates (lalpurja), registering transactions, and collecting fees/revenue; the plot (kitta) number, the map (naksa), the four-boundary (charkilla) description as the deed's identification spine.The transaction documents (the practice taxonomy): the Rajinama (deed of transfer — sale/gift/exchange registered by jalani at the Malpot office); the Likhat (the private unregistered writing — Unit 11's problem child); the Bandhak-bhitta (mortgage deed); the Purvaja (the antecedent deed — the chain-of-title document); the Bato-saki and trace-sheets; the Charkillanirman boundary certificates; the Napi (survey) records and field-books.The registration process (the sequence to narrate): deed drafting (the likhakar's craft) → presentation at the Malpot office with the lalpurja → verification (the office's srestha checks: title, ceiling compliance, court-lis pendens, the seller's identity/photographs/fingerprints) → fees (the ad valorem registration charge) → jalani (the deed's registration — entry in the register, the new certificate issued in the buyer's name) → possession delivery (the boundary handover). The registration's effects: transfer complete (immovables); the deed's evidentiary finality; the priority rule (later registered vs. earlier unregistered — the registry's logic).