Our client’s unauthorized residential house had previously been legalized by the head of the community. However, the Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia refused to register the client’s ownership rights, arguing that, according to the cadastral map, a municipal public road was located within the boundaries of the property.
After the client sought our assistance, we began identifying possible legal solutions to the land dispute and cadastral dispute. Based on a professional land survey, together with the legal research and analysis conducted by our firm’s attorney Nahapet Sukiasyan, it became clear that the cadastral map contained an error and that the alleged road did not actually exist.
Despite the survey results and the cadastral mapping error, the Cadastre Committee refused to correct the cadastral records and register the ownership rights to the real estate. Instead, it required the intended purpose of the alleged municipal road to be changed, even though no such road existed in reality.
We filed a claim with the Administrative Court of Armenia seeking to compel the Cadastre Committee to complete the state registration of ownership rights. During the proceedings, we demonstrated that the cadastral map contained an error, that the Cadastre Committee was legally responsible for correcting that error, and that such an error could not lawfully justify refusing state registration of ownership rights.
By its judgment of June 30, 2026, in Administrative Case No. VD/12800/05/25 (see https://datalex.am:443/?app=AppCaseSearch&case_id=38562071810026743), the Administrative Court fully granted our claim and ordered the Cadastre Committee to register our clients’ ownership rights.
This judgment is important for Armenian land law and cadastral dispute practice, reaffirming that technical or factual errors in cadastral maps cannot be used to deny citizens the state registration of their ownership rights.
We thank Judge Armen Nersisyan of the Administrative Court for issuing a well-reasoned and fair judicial decision.
