📘 Commentaries on The Registration Act (in 2 Vols.) | 17th Edition (2025)
✒️ Authored by: Sanjiva Row | Language: English | Publisher: Law Publishers (India) Pvt. Ltd.

The 17th Edition (2025) of Sanjiva Row’s Commentaries on The Registration Act remains the most authoritative and exhaustive treatise on the Indian Registration Act, 1908. Spread across two comprehensive volumes, this classic work has been relied upon by the Bar, Bench, and academia for over a century. It provides section-wise commentary, judicial analysis, and practical guidance on the registration of documents and related property law issues.

🔍 Key Features:

• 📜 Complete Coverage – section-by-section commentary on the Registration Act, 1908 with cross-references to allied legislations.

• ⚖️ Judicial Pronouncements – extensive analysis of landmark rulings by the Supreme Court, High Courts, and Privy Council.

• 🏛️ Scope of Registration – detailed treatment of documents requiring registration, optional registration, exemptions, and consequences of non-registration.

• 📝 Practical Insights – guidance on registration procedures, jurisdiction of sub-registrars, powers of registering officers, and remedies in case of refusal.

• 📚 Property Law Context – linkages with the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Evidence Act, 1872, and other statutes.

• 🕌 Special Provisions – coverage of registration of wills, leases, mortgages, gifts, decrees, awards, and powers of attorney.

• 🌐 Comparative & Historical Notes – insights into legislative evolution, amendments, and state-specific variations.

• 🆕 17th Edition (2025) – thoroughly revised and updated with the latest statutory amendments, notifications, and recent case law.

• 📖 Two-Volume Set – logically structured for easy navigation and research, making it suitable for both court practice and academic reference.

🎯 Recommended For:

• Advocates & legal practitioners in property and registration law

• Judges, registrars & sub-registrars handling registration matters

• Academicians, researchers & law students studying property law

• Real estate professionals, bankers & compliance officers dealing with registered instruments

• Libraries & institutions requiring an authoritative legal reference set

This 17th Edition (2025) of Sanjiva Row’s Commentaries on The Registration Act in 2 volumes continues to uphold its reputation as a definitive, scholarly, and practice-oriented treatise, making it an essential reference for property and registration law in India.