Transfer of Property Act, 1882
Transfer of Property Act, 1882
II — 1 · Section 47

Transfer by co-owners of share in common property

Synced on 04 Jul 2026Text as per India Code

Where several co-owners of immoveable property transfer a share therein without specifying that the transfer is to take effect on any particular share or shares of the transferors, the transfer, as among such transferors, takes effect on such shares equally where the shares were equal, and, where they were unequal, proprotionately to the extent of such shares.

Illustration A, the owner of an eight-anna share, and B and C, each the owner of a four-anna share, in mauza Sultanpur, transfer a two-anna share in the mauza to D, without specifying from which of their several shares the transfer is made. To give effect to the transfer one-anna share is taken from the share of A, and half-an-anna share from each of the shares of B and C.

Judgments on Section 47