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These are the points on which Indian real estate transactions most often fail — not because the law is obscure, but because the document was named before it was decided. General information on Maharashtra practice, not advice on your matter.
It depends on what the document actually does, not what you call it. An MOU that recites consideration, delivers possession or grants development rights is, in substance, an agreement to sell or a development agreement — and it is read and charged as one. If you want an exploratory document, it must be drafted deliberately on the non-binding side of that line, with an express anti-possession clause and no grant of development rights. If you want the deal tied up, use a binding term sheet or go straight to the development agreement.
No. Stamp duty follows the substance of the instrument, not its title. Where two descriptions could apply, the higher duty is generally charged. This is the single most expensive drafting error in Indian real estate: a document labelled 'MOU' that in substance transfers development rights is assessed as a development agreement, at conveyance rates, on the market value of the land.
No. A mutation entry in the record of rights is a fiscal record maintained for revenue purposes. It does not by itself create, confer or extinguish title. Title comes from the registered instruments in the chain. Revenue entries corroborate; they do not prove. Any diligence that stops at the 7/12 extract has not investigated title.
Often, yes. Where a landowner shares revenue or built-up area in a project, they are commonly treated as a co-promoter under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, and must be disclosed as such in the registration. The practical consequence is that the landowner carries promoter obligations to allottees even though the developer runs the project — so the allocation of that liability has to be papered expressly.
Pot-kharaba is the uncultivable portion of a survey number recorded in the revenue record. Class (A) is at the holder's disposal. Class (B) is land set apart for a public purpose and is not at the holder's disposal — it cannot be developed unless it is converted to Class (A) and the record of rights is updated. Class (B) must be deducted before anyone relies on an area or prices a per-acre rate.
Generally not without permission. The Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 restricts the transfer of agricultural land to a person who is not an agriculturist, and a transfer made in breach can be challenged. Where land was acquired by a tenant under the tenancy legislation, a further restriction on transfer attaches and a separate permission is required. Both need to be checked before the structure is fixed, not after.
Exclusive possession. If the occupier has exclusive possession of the premises, the document is a lease in substance whatever it is called, and the lease consequences follow — different stamp duty, compulsory registration above the statutory term, and tenancy protection. Calling a document a licence does not make it one.
A development agreement is compulsorily registrable and, in Maharashtra, is commonly charged at conveyance rates. Under the Registration Act, 1908 it must be presented for registration within four months of execution, extendable on payment of a fine. An unregistered instrument that ought to have been registered cannot be received in evidence of the transaction it records — which is exactly when the client needs it.
Written for the State of Maharashtra and current as at August 2026. Stamp rates, reckoner values and circulars change; nothing here is a substitute for a Partner's opinion on your facts.