Encumbrance certificate
Every registered transaction on a survey number as the sub registrar recorded it: sales, mortgages, gifts, partitions and releases, with the parties and the consideration, plus the charges the register still carries.
What we need
One thing at a time. Fill it in and press Run.
The answer
From the register, with its date and source.
Nothing run yet. The answer appears here with everything this mini adds:
- Which sub registrar office held the village in which years, so an old deed is searched at the right office
- Mortgages, charges and releases flagged out of the entries, not left for you to spot
- The certificate the department issued as a PDF when the register route produces one, and a certified copy one step away
How this works
What it reads, what it needs, and how to read the answer.
The encumbrance certificate is the registration department's list of every registered transaction touching a property in a period. This mini pulls it live for a survey number and reads it: the entries, the parties, the consideration, and which entries are mortgages or charges that may still bind the land.
The village or town and the survey number, with the sub-division when the deed quotes one. A date range is optional; without it the full available history is searched.
1Village and survey number2Search the register by3Plot number (plot search)4Flat number (plot search)5Document number (document search)6Document year (document search)7From (optional)8To (optional)- Which sub registrar office held the village in which years, so an old deed is searched at the right office
- Mortgages, charges and releases flagged out of the entries, not left for you to spot
- The certificate the department issued as a PDF when the register route produces one, and a certified copy one step away
Charged only when the record comes back. You see your balance before you approve, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.
Each row is one registered document in date order. A sale moves ownership; a mortgage or charge binds the land until a release appears later in the list. An empty result means the office found nothing for that survey in that period, which is not the same as the land being clear: check the sub-division and the years the office holds.
The registration department's encumbrance search for the sub registrar office that holds the village, with the office and its years of coverage read from the department's village index.
Questions people ask
Short answers, no jargon.
Why is the office and its years shown first?
Villages move between sub registrar offices over the decades. An EC for 1985 to 1995 may have to be searched at a different office from today's. The coverage table shows which office held the village when.
What does it cost?
One credit per pull, charged only when transactions come back. A search that returns nothing is not charged.
The list is empty. Is the land clear?
Not necessarily. The register may hold the property under a sub-division, a different survey after a resurvey, or a plot number in a layout. Try the sub-division, or the subdivisions mini to see how the survey is split.
Can I get a certified copy of a deed listed here?
Yes. Ask LandLens One to order the certified copy; it goes to the office that registered that document, and the copy lands in your account.
Still unsure? Ask LandLens One, it can reason about this parcel with you.
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