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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 19 names in this directory beginning with the letter J.
Jadid Settlement
Under this type of Settlement operation complete re-measurement is carried out with the help of survey equipment keeping in view the old Shajra and record.

Jal-sechan
Irrigation

Jalkar
Fishery right or rent

Jalsa aam
A community gathering.

Jama
Rent

Jamaan
Land Tax.

Jamabandhi
Record of rights

Jamabandi
Record of Rights (ROR) of a village. Jamabandi Register contains name of owners__ area of land__ shares of owners and other Rights. It also indicates cultivation__ rent and revenue and other cesses payable on land.

JAMABANDI MUTATION REGISTER
All changes in title or interest are incorporated into the Jamabandi through attestation of mutation. The Patwari enters the mutations on the basis of a document/verbal information presented by the concerned parties for the change in title/interest on land. This information is first entered into the Patwari’s Diary (Roznamcha Wakyati) giving serial no. And date and then into the mutation register referencing the Roznamcha no. However__ the final changes in the Jamabandi are made only after the Revenue officer has attested the mutation. The mutation form has 15 columns and every entry is given a Serial Number__ which is called Mutation Number. This Mutation Number runs continuously from one settlement to another for each estate. The Mutation register is maintained by the Patwari and all entries are made in duplicate. The Patwari’s copy (PARAT PATWAR) contains the brief substance of the Revenue Officer’s order__ while the other copy (PARAT SARKAR) contains the detailed order and is kept in the Tehsil in separate estate-wise bundles. Whenever a mutation is entered__ the Patwari makes a note in the remark column of the Jamabandi in pencil giving the Mutation No. and type of mutation. When the mutation is attested__ he makes the entry in Red ink__ giving Mutation No.__ type and date of attestation. When the new Jamabandi is written__ all the mutations accepted are attached to the new Jamabandi for cross-reference and an index sheet linking the mutations to the Khatas is placed in the Jamabandi.

JAMABANDI REGISTER
It is prepared quinquenially in duplicate for every estate on the basis of entries existing and changes recorded on the Mutation Register__ Khasra Girdawari Register and Fard Badr over a period of 5 years. It is the document to which a presumption of truth is attached. The form of the Jamabandi has 12 columns and gives Khewat / Khatoni number-wise information of total holding of each owner of land in a particular revenue estate. It also indicates cultivation__ rent and revenue and other cesses payable on land and constitutes an up to date record of various rights in land. The new Jamabandi is prepared by the Patwari and is attested by the Revenue Office in a public meeting of local villages. Two copies of the revised Jamabandi are prepared__ one copy is filed to the District Record Room and other copy remains with the Patwari. All changes in title/interests of the revenue estate coming into the notice of Revenue Authorities are duly reflected in the Jamabandi according to set procedures.

Jamabandi/Fard
It is the records of rights (RoR)__ containing information about the land__ its owners and its cultivators__ etc.

Janch
Checking of record

Janib
Towards.

Janub
South direction.

Jarip
Survey of land__ survey chain

Jawar
A kind of millet (Sorghum Val gave).

Jinsavar
A headman’s list of the crops of a village.

Jot
A form of tenancy

Jwar
A kind of millet Sorghum Vulgare.