Law of Possession & Ownership of Property

The book "Law of Possession and Ownership of Property" is an elaborate commentary possession and ownership of property along with other important connected subjects. The Present book contains concept, meaning and scope of ownership and possession, remedies for protection of possession, kinds of possession, dispossession, succession to property, transfer of possession and ownership, law of joint-family property, co-ownership and partition, co-owners and co-parceners, benami transactions, adverse possession, licence, easementary right, mortgage of property, tenancy, trust property, lease, gifts, Hindu and Muslim Law, Injunction, proof of deeds and documents, and encroachment of public land.

Several aspects pertaining to comparative study of possession and ownership with the other important connected subjects are incorporated at the appropriate place. Approach adopted in the present book is methodical and analytical. The Author has made survey of various provisions relating to possession and ownership. Exhaustive synopsis has been provided aspect-wise and provision-wise. View of different Courts, practices of various High Courts and Supreme Court have been beautifully summed up. The case-law commentary is taken from the leading journals. Concise subject index has been provided at the end of book.

• Introduction
• Possession-Meaning and Scope
• Kinds of Possession
• Remedies for Protection of Possession
• Ownership-Meaning and Scope
• Kinds of Ownership
• Modes of Acquisition of Ownership
• Dispossession
• Recovery and Delivery of possession
• Acquisition of Ownership by Possession
• Succession to property
• Transfer of Possession and Ownership of Property
• Possession and Ownership of joint family property
• Co-ownership and Partition
• Adverse Possession
• Co-Owner and Adverse Possession