Which property documents need not be registered?

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"The following property documents are not required to be registered:
• Any document which merely creates a right to obtain another document which when executed will affect rights in immovable property. An agreement to sell is an example of one such document. A contract for the sale of immovable property would not require registration even if it provides for the payment of any earnest money or of the whole amount.
• Any decree or order of a court except a decree or order expressed to be made on a compromise and comprising immovable property other than that which is the subject matter of the suit or proceeding.
• Any grant of immovable property by the government.
• Any instrument of partition made by a revenue officer.
• Any endorsement on a mortgage-deed acknowledging the payment of the whole or any part of the mortgage-money, and any other receipt for payment of money due under a mortgage when the receipt does not purport to extinguish the mortgage.
• Any certificate of sale granted to the purchaser of any property sold by public auction by a civil or revenue officer."
 

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