Is this a UK registery scam?
In the UK registry form TR1 section 13 the Transferor & Transferee sign. Apparently only the transferor needs to sign this unless there are restrictions on it. Could someone tell me where the following scam can be foiled. Say a plot of land was transferred to sonone, all signatures in place and on the face of it looks all above board. But the inland revenue(IR) are going to knock on sonones door for tax evasion. So the IR can't touch him for the land sonone sells it to sontwo but only signs it as the transferor. Can sontwo deny anything to do with aiding and abetting tax evasion? Although monies have been transferred this will have been in cash and handed straight back. Sonone, after dodging the IR and they're out of the way, retains the land and reverses the process to get his name back on the registery docs. This is all done with the asistance of dodgey solicitors.
Can one buy property in Shimla if he is not from Himachal?
Yes you can but there are some limitations.Read full answer.Mukesh Sharma's answer to Why can't Indians from other states buy property/land in states like Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh? What is the basis for the law (if any)?The only reason that the Govt. do not allow non-himachali to buy land in Himachal Pradesh or in Arunachal Pradesh is because Himachal Pradesh and other hill states has agriculture/horticulture driven economy wikipedia.orgEconomy of Himachal Pradesh.Some might say that the decision of the Govt. not to allow non-himachali to buy land inHimachal Pradesh, India is not good but this policy is best for the sake of villagers like in my village Thachi Himachal Pradesh and for most of the rural areas in Himachal.Most of the population in Himachal Pradesh is not working but fully dependent on agriculture , so that's there. This policy is in favour of the state population.However non-himachalis can buy a non agricultural land which is not being used for agricultural purpose but that too requires a prior permission from the State Government.Outsiders do not require any special permission to buy or lease an already constructed property but that property needs not to be in rural area, the constructed property needs to be urban area only and that must not be an agricultural area.Property ownership of the outsider will be limited only to the constructed area and the land on which this property is built will not be in his ownership.
If a person owns a piece of land, does he/she own it all the way down to the core of the earth?
Yes. Ownership of land generally includes all the land below the delineated surface plot, all the way down to the center of the earth, and to the sky above to infinity. In theory, the cubic volume of space would decrease gradually as you go down towards the core of the earth and increase as you move up towards outer space.But land ownership, or the ability to actually use the "ground below and sky above," is by no means unrestricted and private ownership rights at certain depths and heights are generally not recognized as valid. Ownership of land is commonly subject to existing mineral, easement, utility and air-use rights of others (including governments, utility, mining and aviation companies with easements or other rights of use) and an owner's use of these elements are restricted accordingly, including local zoning and building laws that limit an owner's ability to use the ground below and the sky above the land he owns.Air, Water and Subsurface Rights"Cuius est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum et ad inferos":"To whomever owns the land, shall own the earth to its center and up to the heavens." This Latin maxim was the precursor to modern law of the air and of the earth below it. But modern case law has greatly tempered the extent to which such a right can now be enforced. Mining, electricity distribution, sewer systems disposal and air travel have all conspired to erode this principle such that it is now little more than legal folklore."No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property." -Charles Warner 1871
In the registry of deeds what does gtor mean?
Guarantor?