Section 218: Deed of partition to be registered

1) In effecting partition, a deed of partition shall be drawn up in the presence of witnesses, bear the signature and thumb-impression of the witness and the coparcener and be registered in the concerned office, having duly fulfilled the legal requirements.

2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), in cases where partition was effected in household making a balance between highly valuable and less valuable property, whether or not executing a deed of partition between any coparceners before 10 January 1978 (27 Poush 2034) and a coparcener has already taken his or her partition share and effected transmission thereof or the coparceners have individually possessed or sold or transacted their respective partition share of immovable property according to partition, partition shall be deemed to have been effected in spite of being the deed of partition not registered.