Section 47 - Transfer by co-owners of share in common property : Transfer of Property Act, 1882

What is Transfer by co-owners of share in common property? Section 47 of Transfer of Property Act, 1882

Section 47 of Transfer of Property Act 1882 : "Transfer by co-owners of share in common property"

47. Where several co-owners of immovable 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, proportionately 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.

TRANSFER OF PROPERTY ACT 1882

Section 41 - Transfer by ostensible owner

Section 42 - Transfer by person having authority to revoke former transfer

Section 43 - Transfer by unauthorised person who subsequently acquires interest in property transferred

Section 44 - Transfer by one co-owner

Section 45 - Joint transfer for consideration

Section 46 - Transfer for consideration by persons having distinct interests

Section 47 - Transfer by co-owners of share in common property

Section 48 - Priority of rights created by transfer

Section 49 - Transferee's right under policy

Section 50 - Rent bona fide paid to holder under defective title

Section 51 - Improvements made by bona fide holders under defective titles