Land terms Q–S

Establishing purpose, funds, authority, timeline and alternatives early, to allocate capacity sensibly.

A buyer with funds, decision-making authority and genuine intent.

The winter cropping season, sown after the monsoon and harvested in spring. It is the second of the two seasons for which girdawari is recorded. A parcel cultivated in kharif but consistently fallow in rabi is telling you something about residual moisture or irrigation, and is worth asking about rather than assuming.

The winter cropping season.

A registered mortgage of land as security for a debt.

Area, recorded in hectares and ares in metricated records.

A path or track. Recorded within a khasra as gair mumkin but not usable or closable by the holder.

A recorded path. Where it crosses a parcel it reduces usable area without reducing recorded area.

The periodic updating of DLC values, between which market and schedule diverge.

The fixed rhythm on which every inventory entry is re-checked and re-dated.

Registration with the state authority required under RERA to facilitate transactions in registered projects.

The usual first hire — retrieval, extracts, chain assembly and filing.

Business arising from a previous client or contact; the highest-quality and slowest-building channel.

The number of further enquiries each well-served client eventually produces; the variable separating a business from a job.

A standing arrangement with an advocate to whom clients needing legal opinion are sent immediately.

The proportion of enquiries arriving through recommendation; the best single predictor of a practice's future.

The standing list of practices declined regardless of the commission offered.

An agent registered with the state authority, as required to facilitate transactions in registered projects.

The professional whose valuation is required for bank, court, tax or dispute purposes.

The statute governing registration of documents, including compulsory registration of transfers of immovable property.

A charge for the act of registration, separate from stamp duty.

A scheme under which unapproved development may be regularised on payment and conditions; availability and scope change.

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, and the authority constituted under it in each state.

Land shown in the plan for a planned public purpose, restricting interim use.

The duty to return land to a stated condition at termination, ideally with security for performance.

The owner receives an agreed proportion of sale proceeds.

What happens to the land and any construction if the arrangement terminates.

Available capital divided by monthly fixed costs; how long the practice survives with no income.

The registered instrument that actually transfers title, executed before the Sub-Registrar with stamp duty paid.

The registered instrument that transfers title.

The document setting out the terms, conditions and timelines of an auction; the terms govern.

The area remaining after roads, open space and any handover requirement — materially less than acquired area.

The written definition of what a report covers and, equally important, what it does not.

The ordered sequence of cheap checks that eliminates unsuitable parcels before expensive diligence.

The written classification of a parcel's defects as fatal, fixable or priceable, with each issue named.

Sub-divisional officer; hears appeals from Tehsildar-level orders.

Commonly cited provision restricting sale, gift and bequest by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe khatedars without permission.

The operative provision of the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 for permitting non-agricultural use of agricultural land.

An earlier statutory position, still referred to in older documents and litigation; section 90-A governs today.

A sum held against default or damage, refundable on compliant exit.

The time taken to sell all plots, which in a slow market phase can extend for years.

The written scope, frequency, deliverable, inclusions, money handling, authority and term of the engagement.

The historic survey and settlement record, often the starting point at the far end of a chain.

A corridor cutting a holding in two, potentially leaving an unusable or landlocked remainder.

Reputation, on which almost everything rests and which has no redundancy.

Low risk until the occupier leaves, at which point a purpose-built building stands empty.

Unallotted land at the State's disposal. Not private property and not saleable by an individual.

The study of need and effects, with public consultation, required before certain acquisitions.

An additional hundred per cent of market value with assets, in recognition of the compulsory nature of acquisition.

The simplest structure, in which the business and the individual are the same person with no liability separation.

Progressive enlargement of scope or quality beyond what was costed.

Land and rights in land sit largely with the States, which is why tenure and conversion law differs so much.

A court order restraining dealings in the land while litigation is pending.

Sellers' reluctance to reduce quoted prices when demand falls, so volume drops before price does.

The suffix created when a khasra is divided, as in 218/1 and 218/2.

Officer of the registration department before whom deeds are registered and stamp duty accounted.

The inability of land supply to respond quickly to demand, which is what produces cycles.

The distortion arising because accounts of a trade come only from those still in it.

Possession recorded formally without the occupier having vacated, as distinct from physical possession.