In general terms, Property Law in any country deals with the law which governs the various issues related to the ownership of property .Property law deals with the mechanism of what an individual is entitled to own and provides guidelines to its usage and conditions. It is applicable to both real and personal property. It impacts everyone living in a society and is also an important part of land law, family law and municipal law.

Anything that is legally owned is a property. Further all the properties can be broadly categorised into Real and Personal property.Now arises a confusion between real property and personal property. What is the difference between both the laws? So basically, real property means land which thereby means land laws and includes things which are attached to land such as house, garage, commercial buildings and even trees or forest. Whereas, personal property includes things which one possess and is movable like a car.

Before the Transfer of Property Act came into force the laws related to property was governed by the principles of English Law and Equity.The transfer of property in India is regulated by the Transfer of property act, 1882. It contains provisions regarding transfer of property and has rules and regulations regarding the transfer.

According to the Transfer of property act, 1882 ‘transfer of property’ is an act by which a person transmits the property to another person where the person may include an individual, association, company or body of individuals and the property transferred can be both movable and immovable.