What is difference between 7/12 Extract,Property card and sanad?

 Both the 7 12 extract and property card provides property information. However, there is a thin line of difference between 7 12 extract and property card. When your land property is located in a municipal area and has a city survey number, the details of the property’s transfers of ownership/ transactions are usually recorded in the property card, which the owner can obtain from the city survey office after submitting an application and the required fee.

When land property is located beyond the authority of the municipal council and is agricultural land, the owner of the land property can obtain a 7/12 extract of his respective Survey number or Gat number from the Talathi or Revenue office.

Sanad is the conversion process of agricultural land into a non-agricultural one. When such conversion is desired, the landowner must file an application to be able to obtain a Sanad certificate.

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Whether sanad or property card is required to be set aside?

Article 14 of the Indian Limitation Act provides that an application to set aside any act or order of an officer of Government in his official capacity, not herein otherwise expressly provided for, shall be brought within one year from the date of the act or order. It is contended that the decision of the inquiry officer is an order of a Government officer, and the sanad is an act of such officer in his official capacity, and I think those two points may be conceded. But the question is whether this is a suit to set aside an act or an order of a Government officer within Article 14. Certainly the plaint does not ask in terms that the order or sanad be set aside. It does ask for possession, and the contention put forward by the appellant is that the Court could not make an order for possession in face of this sanad, but must set aside the sanad first, and that any order for possession as against the appellant involves setting aside the sanad on which he relies. That argument, I think, might prevail, if the sanad were an ordinary document of title. If a plaintiff is suing for possession, and the defendant relies on a conveyance from the plaintiff or his predecessor, it may be necessary to set that conveyance aside before the plaintiff can get an order for possession, and in these circumstances the suit for possession would be in substance a suit to set aside a document within the Indian Limitation Act, though that relief be not expressly asked for. To my mind the real question on this appeal is, whether the sanad, which is much more precise than the order of the inquiry officer, amounts to something in the nature of a document of title, which must be set aside before the plaintiff can get an order for possession. Mr. Coyajee for the appellant relies on a dictum of Sir Norman Macleod in Ulawappa v. Gadigewa (1925) 27 Bom. L.R. 948 in which he refers to a sanad granted under Section 133 of the Bombay Land Revenue Code as in the nature of a document of title, but in that case the learned Chief Justice was not considering the question which we have to deal with. To my mind a sanad granted under Section 133 is not strictly speaking in the nature of a document of title between litigating parties. It is a document affecting rights only between the Crown and the person to whom it is granted. The object of an inquiry under the Land Revenue Code is to determine the right of Government to revenue, and for that purpose to survey the land and to determine who is the holder and, therefore, liable to assessment. But an order made under the Land Revenue Code is not, in my opinion, intended to operate, and does not operate, finally as a determination of title between subjects of Government. No doubt an order made under the, Land Revenue Code is prima facie evidence of title, but it is not conclusive and may be over-ridden as other evidence may be overridden. It is not, in my opinion, essential for a person in the position of the plaintiff in this case claiming possession against the defendant, who has been granted a sanad Under Section 133, to obtain an order setting aside that the sanad before he can obtain an order for recovery of possession from a civil Court, It is always open to the revenue authorities to correct their record, and if the plaintiff, having obtained an order for possession or an order declaring his title from a competent civil Court, goes to the revenue authorities, I have no doubt that the necessary corrections will be made in the revenue records. But the revenue records, in my opinion, are not conclusive in favour of the defendant as against the plaintiff, and it is not, therefore, essential that the Court should make an order setting aside the sanad before granting an order for possession to the plaintiff.
 Bombay High Court

Narbheramji Gyaniramji Ramsnehi vs Vivekramji Bhagatramji Ramsnehi on 8 March, 1939

Equivalent citations: (1939) 41 BOMLR 939

Bench: J Beaumont, Kt., N Wadia

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