Power of Attorney: Heirs’ Claims Against an Attorney After Authorised Sale of Land

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Power of Attorney: Heirs’ Claims Against an Attorney After Authorised Sale of Land

English:

Question #1790:

As an attorney, a person sold plots of land to a number of people. The landlord agreed with his attorney not to give the buyers the official deeds of the land. After the death of the landlord, his inheritors, although admitting the sale, say that the matter of the fees arising from amending the land deeds is the responsibility of the attorney. Moreover, they are demanding that the attorney pay them the difference in the price arising from the appreciation of these lands. Are they right in their demands?

Answer #1790:

The attorney does not have to bear any expenses arising from the official registration of the title deeds in the buyers’ names. As for the price of the lands, if it is established that the attorney received it from the buyers and gave it to the landlord, the inheritors have no right to demand the money or the difference arising from the actual higher value of the lands.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Power of Attorney