Lahore
Property Lawyer in Lahore
Transfers and mutation, title and possession disputes, housing-society transfers and inheritance.
Property is the largest investment most families in Lahore ever make, and it is also the most disputed. A transfer that was never properly recorded, a housing-society file that will not move, an heir who was left out, or a plot that someone else has occupied — these are the matters we are asked about most.
Global Law Company works on property matters from its office on Fane Road at Mozang Chungi. We act for buyers and sellers, for heirs, for landlords and tenants, and for overseas Pakistanis trying to protect land they cannot visit.
Who we help
We act for buyers who want a transaction checked before the money moves; owners facing illegal possession (qabza); heirs whose share has not been transferred; parties to title, partition and possession suits; landlords and tenants in rent disputes; and clients dealing with housing societies and development authorities over transfers, dues and cancelled files.
A large share of this work is for overseas Pakistanis. Property left in someone else's care is the single most common reason overseas clients contact us, and it is usually cheaper to check the record early than to litigate later.
Pakistan law · reported authority · practical assessment
Property Law in Lahore: applicable law and case brief
What decides this service
A property matter is decided by the record long before it is decided by argument. Which forum it belongs in follows from what is actually wrong: a civil suit for declaration, possession or specific performance; a revenue proceeding over mutation and demarcation; or, only where possession was taken criminally, a complaint under the Illegal Dispossession Act 2005. Choosing the wrong one costs years, and delay is itself a defence.
Applicable Pakistani legal framework
These are the principal enactments to test at the start of a property law in lahore matter. Amendments, rules, special regimes, and provincial application still depend on the facts and location.
- Illegal Dispossession Act 2005
- Criminalises unlawful dispossession from immovable property. Section 3 requires both an unlawful act and criminal intent; it protects settled possession from land grabbers, and is not a substitute for a civil suit.
- Specific Relief Act 1877
- The civil remedies over property — declaration and possession under sections 8, 42 and 54, specific performance under section 12, and compensation under section 19 where performance is refused.
- Punjab Land Revenue Act 1967
- Governs the revenue record: mutation, demarcation by the revenue officer, and applications such as section 67-B for delivery of possession.
- Limitation Act 1908
- Fixes the window for challenging a transaction or a mutation. A bare plea of recent knowledge, after entries have stood in the record for decades, will not reopen it.
Statute titles checked in PakistanLawSite on 11 September 2026; descriptions are original editorial summaries.
Syed Basharat Hussain Shah v The State
2026 MLD 594
- Court
- Lahore High Court (Rawalpindi Bench)
- Decided
- 6 November 2025
The legal question
Can a boundary dispute between two landowners be prosecuted as illegal dispossession (qabza) under the Illegal Dispossession Act 2005?
What the Court held
No. A conviction carrying three years' imprisonment, a fine and an order restoring possession was set aside and the appellant acquitted. Not every dispute about possession falls within section 3: the complainant must show both an unlawful act and criminal intent. The Act was enacted to shield people in settled possession from land grabbers and violent or lawless ouster, not to furnish a shortcut for private parties in a civil dispute — in the Court's words, "its provisions operate as protections, not weapons". The parties were in truth arguing about where their respective parcels lay; the demarcation report was unreliable because the revenue officer had not fixed three permanent points from different angles after locating them exactly; and the complaint had been filed more than ten months into a pending civil suit for possession, which was then withdrawn.
Practical implication
Before a complaint is filed under the 2005 Act, be able to show settled possession and an ouster that looks criminal rather than merely contested. A civil suit already running over the same land, an unexplained delay in complaining, and a loose demarcation are each enough on their own to sink it — and an acquittal leaves the land exactly where it started, with the civil suit still to be brought.
What we establish first
- Every earlier proceeding over the same land — declaration suits, possession suits, section 67-B applications — and how each one ended.
- The demarcation report: whether the revenue officer fixed three permanent points from different angles after determining their exact location.
- The gap between the alleged dispossession and the complaint; ten months went against the complainant here.
This is an original editorial summary of a reported decision verified in PakistanLawSite on 11 September 2026. It is a research starting point, not a prediction or legal advice; outcomes depend on the current law, evidence, and facts of each matter.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We can check what the record currently shows, advise on the options available, and act for you under a properly executed power of attorney so you do not have to travel for every step. The earlier the record is checked the more options usually remain.
Yes, and it is the cheapest legal work you will ever pay for on a property. A check before the money moves costs a fraction of a dispute afterwards.
Much of the early work is checking documents and the record, which we can begin from a scan or a photograph of what you hold. Where a step needs you in person we will say so before you travel.
We separate work that can be priced as a fixed task — a title check, a document review, a drafted agreement — from contested litigation, which we scope stage by stage. You are told what a stage costs before it starts.
Property matters are run by advocates who appear in these courts and deal with these registries routinely, and you deal with the person handling your file.