mutation
Meaning. An entry in revenue records changing the name of the person liable to pay land revenue.
Mutation is the recording in the revenue records (record of rights, khata) of a change in the holder of land, after a sale, inheritance, partition or gift. It is done by the revenue authorities on application or on intimation of a registered document.
Mutation is for fiscal purposes only: it shows who pays land revenue. It does not create, confer or extinguish title, and an entry in the mutation register is not proof of ownership. Title disputes must be decided by a civil court, and revenue entries carry only a rebuttable presumption of correctness.
Example
Although the land was mutated in the nephew's name after the owner's death, the mutation gave him no title against the widow, who was the real heir.
In Indian law
- Sections 128 and 129, Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 (acquisition of rights to be reported; register of mutations)
See also
record of rights · khata · title · patta
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