Law of Property Act 1922

107 Construction of deeds and other instruments and presumption of survivorship.

(1) In all deeds, contracts, wills, orders and other instruments executed, made or coming into operation after the commencement of this Act, unless a contrary intention appears—

(a) " Month " means calendar month.

(b) " Person " includes a corporation.

(c) The singular includes the plural and vice versa;

(d) The masculine includes the feminine and vice versa.

(2) The Lord Chancellor may from time to time prescribe and publish forms of contracts and conditions of sale of land, and the forms so prescribed and for the time being in force shall, subject to any stipulation, modification, or intention expressed to the contrary, apply to contracts by correspondence, and may, but only by express reference thereto, be made to apply to any other cases for which the forms are made available ; and may also prescribe and publish forms to which a testator may refer in his will, but, unless so referred to, such forms shall not be deemed to be incorporated in a will.

(3) In all cases where, after the commencement of this Act, two or more persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain which of them survived the other or others, such deaths shall (subject to any order of the court), for all purposes affecting the title to property, be presumed to have occurred in order of seniority, and accordingly the younger shall be deemed to have survived the elder.

(4) Any deed, whether or not being an indenture, may be described (at the commencement thereof or otherwise) as a deed simply, or as a conveyance, deed of exchange, vesting deed, trust deed, settlement, mortgage, charge, transfer of mortgage, appointment, lease or otherwise according to the nature of the transaction intended to be effected.