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Under Indian laws, immovable property includes land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights, ferries, fisheries or any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, but not standing timber, growing crops nor grass.^¹ Due to the fact that land is a state subject under Schedule VII of the Indian constitution, the laws governing immovable property vary from state to state.

Section 2 (6) of the Registration Act, 1908[↩]

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