Transfer of Property Act Section 7 — Persons competent to transfer

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY

General

Summary

A person can transfer property if they are legally able to make a contract and either own the property themselves or have legal authority to transfer someone else's property. This transfer can be for the whole property or just part of it, and it can be absolute or subject to conditions. The transfer must follow the rules and limits set by any law that is currently in force.

Official Text

Every person competent to contract and entitled to transferable property, or authorised to dispose of transferable property not his own, is competent to transfer such property either wholly or in part and either absolutely or conditionally, in the circumstances, to the extent and in the manner, allowed and prescribed by any law for the time being in force. 1. Nothing in Chapter II is to be deemed to affect any rule of Muhammadan Law—see s. 2, supra 2. Ins. by Act 20 of 1929, s. 6. 3. Added by s. 6, ibid. 4. Ins. by s. 7, ibid. 5. The words “for compensation for a fraud or for harm illegally caused” omitted by Act 2 of 1900, s. 3. 6. Ins. by Act 35 of 1934, s. 2 and the Schedule. 7. Ins. by Act 10 of 1927, s. 2 and the First Schedule. 8. The word “Government” successively adapted by the A.O. 1937 and A.O. 1950 to read as above. 9. Subs. by Act 2 of 1900, s. 3, for “for an illegal purpose”. 10. Added by Act 3 of 1885, s. 4.