Land Documentation & Due Diligence

Patta records who holds the land. Chitta records the land's revenue classification. Adangal, the village account, records details such as cultivation. The FMB (Field Measurement Book) sketch shows the surveyed boundaries of a survey number. The Encumbrance Certificate lists registered transactions affecting the property over a period.

Alongside these sit the title deeds themselves — the chain of sale, gift, partition or settlement deeds — and, where land has been inherited, legal heir documentation.

Patta not mutated after a sale or inheritance, partitions that were agreed within a family but never registered, subdivided survey numbers missing from the FMB, physical boundaries that no longer match records, encroachments, and powers of attorney whose validity needs checking.

None of these are unusual, and most are resolvable — but each needs time with the relevant office, which is why we look for them first.

Our preliminary review checks that the document set is complete and internally consistent, and flags gaps. Formal legal due diligence and title opinions are then provided by qualified legal counsel working from an organised file.