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The Real Estate Dictionary

As a first of many steps of the Doctors Properties Real Estate Education Foundation, we bring forward a comprehensive dictionary of the most commonly used terms in the Indian Real Estate Sector and also, by the Legal & Revenue Department, pertaining to all land transactions. You will find them helpful in your journey to learn about the complex Indian Real Estate sector.

We hope that members of both, the aspiring and the seasoned Real Estate community in the country and those from outside India, will find it useful.

The Real Estate Dictionary

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
There are currently 43 names in this directory beginning with the letter B.
Ba Hukam Adalat
By order of court.

Badal sutra
By virtue of exchange

Badar
Correction of mistake

Badastur
Unaltered / Same As / As it is

Bahali
Revenue free__ confirmed not resumed__ with ref to lakheraj

Bahissa barabar
Equal division of land.

Bai
Whenever a person sells his land either completely or partially__ to another person__ this type of mutation is know as Bai or Sale. The information recorded in this case is Sale Deed No.__ date of Registry and amount of Registration etc.

Bainama
It refers to a sale deed.

Bakeya
Arrears

Ban-kar
Rent for gathering wood

Banaam
in the name of.

Bandhak sutra
By virtue of mortgage

Bandhakdata
Mortgagor

Bandhakgrihita
Mortgagee

Bandobast
Settlement in all aspects of land survey & measurement__ preparation of revenue records and assessment of land revenue.

Banjar
Uncultivable land.

Banjar Jadid
New fallow. Land not cultivated for continuous four harvests though it was cultivated earlier.

Banjar Kadim
Old fallow. Land not cultivated for continuous eight harvests though it was cultivated earlier.

Bantak sutra
By virtue of partition

Barani
Dependent on rainfall.

Barat
Cross reference

Bari or Basat
Homestead

Bartan
The TD rights or forestry rights of the villagers in revenue terminology are known as ’Bartan’.

Basat praja
Homestad land

Bata dag
A plot with fractional number

Batai
While this could loosely be translated into ‘division’__ the system actually means an arrangement between the owner and cultivator__ to grow crops and share it on certain terms

Batwara
Partition

Baya
Seller of land.

Be-nama
Transaction in another's name

Benamdar
The person in whose name such transaction is made

Bewa
Widow.

Bhita
High land

Bhiti
Raised land

Bhulekh
Hindi word for Land Records in India. Read More.

Bhumidar
An individual who has the right to use land for purposes related to agriculture or farming.

Bibadi
Disputed

Bibidha swatwa
Miscellaneous rights

Bigha
A measure of area (It is different in different areas based upon local Karam unit)

Billa
Devoid of__ without.

Biswa
One twentieth of a bigha

Biswansi
One twentieth of a biswa

boundary marks
mean the marks made of earth stone or any other material__ and also a fence__ or embankment or any other object__ whether natural or artificial__ set up__ named or fixed by any competent officer__ in order to determine the boundary and also include the boundary marks fixed before 1274 Fasli

Bujharat
Local explanation