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Law of Property Act (1925)
Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006
This is the major statutory definition of the ownership, transfer
and exploitation of RealProperty
s.1Defines the legal estates that can be created.
s2(2)States that overreaching takes place when the purchase price of a legal estate is paid to two trustees or a trust corporation
s.34(2)Provides that an attempt to convey land in UndividedShare creates a JointTenancy in law and a TenancyInCommon in equity. See CoOwnershipOfLand.
s.52With a very few exceptions, a legal interest in land can only be created by deed or assent. One exception is a `lease not required to be in writing'. By implication, the effect is that a lease of less than three years made with no formalities at all is a legal, not equitable, lease.
s.53(1) Writing is required to (a) dispose of any interest in land; (b) declare a trust over land; (c) dispose of any equitable interest (in anything, not just land). (2) This does not affect a ResultingTrust or ConstructiveTrust. See also TrustFormalities.
s.54s.53 does not apply to leases of shorter than three years: these may be created without formalities.
s.56(1)Parties identifiable in conveyance may enforce terms of the conveyance even if they are not specifically named. This has been held to mean that covenants can be enforced by people who are not parties to the covenant -- see FreeholdCovenant for discussion
s.62Stipulates that when land is conveyed, the conveyance shall be implied to include and buildings or fixtures on the land, and any rights necessary for enjoyment of the land. s.(3) has been interpreted by the courts as being capable of converting a licence into an easement: see PlattVCrouch2003.
s.78The benefit of any covenant relating to land may be enforced by successor in title to the covenantee. See FreeholdCovenant for discussion
s.79A person who accepts the burden of a covenant is deemed to do so on behalf of his successors in title as well as himself, unless there is clear intention to the contrary. See FreeholdCovenant, LeaseholdCovenant for discussion
s.85A mortgage can only be created over a freehold estate by either a demise (lease) or by a legal charge. An attempt to create a mortgage by any other means takes effect as a demise.
s.86Ditto a leasehold estate.
s.87(1)A mortgage by legal charge shall give the mortgagee the same rights as a demise.
s.88(1) When a mortgagee of a freehold estate excercises his power of sale (see MortgageesPowerOfSale), the purchaser takes the estate free from the mortgage, and any subsequent mortgages. (2) When such a mortgagee is granted a ForeclosureAbsolute, he obtains the estate in fee simple, free of the mortgage and any subsequent mortgages.
s.89Ditto, in effect, a mortgagee of a leasehold estate.
s.97A PuisneMortgage shall have its priority assessed by the date on which it was registered as a land charge.
s.101A mortgagee has a power to sell the mortgaged property (see MortgageesPowerOfSale) or to appoint a receiver (see MortgageesPowerToAppointReceiver). There are also some other rights that are less commonly encountered (e.g., a right to cut and sell timber from the land).
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