law: Registration Act, 1908
  71. Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded
  (1) Every Sub-Registrar refusing to register a document, except
  
  on the ground that the property to which it relates is not situate within his
  
  sub-district, shall make an order of refusal and record his reasons for such
  
  order in his Book No. 2, and endorse the words "registration refused"
  
  on the document; and, on application made by any person executing or claiming
  
  under the document, shall, without payment and unnecessary delay, give him a
  
  copy of the reasons so recorded.
  (2) No registering officer shall accept for registration a
  
  document so endorsed unless and until, under the provisions hereinafter
  
  contained, the document is directed to be registered.