e-StampSub-Registrar
Why deeds are drafted differently
An agreement creates obligations between parties. A deed transfers, creates or extinguishes an interest in property, and it is read by an officer who has no knowledge of your family or your transaction. Everything he needs must be on the face of the document, and it must match the record he holds.
- The property described exactly as the revenue record describes it — survey or city survey number, area, boundaries. The commonest cause of a document being returned.
- The chain of title recited, through every link.
- Every person with an interest as a party — co-owners, all heirs where the property was inherited.
- The operative words, which differ between a sale, a gift, a release and a partition, and which determine what the document actually does.
- Encumbrances declared, and the position on outstanding dues.
Section 17(1) of the Registration Act, 1908 makes registration compulsory for any non-testamentary instrument that creates, declares, assigns, limits or extinguishes a right, title or interest of ₹100 or more in immovable property. In 1908 that was a threshold; today it captures essentially every property transaction. Where a compulsorily registrable document is left unregistered, section 49 bars it from affecting the property or being received as evidence of the transaction.
Deeds we draft
Sale deed (વેચાણ દસ્તાવેજ) · gift deed (બક્ષિસ દસ્તાવેજ) · relinquishment (હક્કમાફી) · partition (વહેંચણી દસ્તાવેજ) · exchange · mortgage (ગીરો ખત) and release of mortgage · rectification · cancellation · declarations of trust · deeds of assignment and confirmation.
A registered deed with no corresponding entry in the revenue record is a half-finished transaction. The deed exists; the record still names somebody else. It surfaces years later, under time pressure. We tell you what the follow-through is and prepare the application for it.
We do not publish duty figures on this website. The Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 was amended in 2025 and several articles were restructured; a rate printed on a web page goes stale and costs somebody money. As a Government authorised e-Stamping centre we confirm the duty currently prescribed for your specific document and issue the e-stamp against it, at face value. The notarial fee is separate and capped by law — ₹35 to attest execution, ₹35 to administer an oath or take an affidavit, under Rule 10(1) of the Notaries Rules, 1956. The full fee table →
Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
Drafted by an advocate of 35+ years rather than filled into a downloaded template, e-stamped at a Government authorised centre, and notarised in the same visit. If the parties read Gujarati, the document is drafted in Gujarati — not translated out of an English form, because legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary and a literal translation frequently means something looser.
What to bring
- Title documents and the full chain of title
- 7/12 and 8-A extract, or the property card
- Mutation entries in the revenue record
- Photo ID and PAN for every party
- Details of every co-owner or heir with an interest