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Part I General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and PowersPrevious MatchNext Match
1. Legal estates and equitable interests.Previous MatchNext Match
2. Conveyances overreaching certain equitable interests and powers.Previous MatchNext Match
3. Manner of giving effect to equitable interests and powers.Previous MatchNext Match
4. Creation and disposition of equitable interests.Previous MatchNext Match
5. Satisfied terms, whether created out of freehold or leasehold land to cease.Previous MatchNext Match
6. Saving of lessors’ and lessees’ covenants.Previous MatchNext Match
7. Saving of certain legal estates and statutory powers.Previous MatchNext Match
8. Saving of certain legal powers to lease.Previous MatchNext Match
9. Vesting orders and dispositions of legal estates operating as conveyances by an estate owner.Previous MatchNext Match
10. Title to be shown to legal estates.Previous MatchNext Match
11. Registration in Middlesex and Yorkshire as respects legal estates. Previous MatchNext Match
12. Limitation and Prescription Acts.Previous MatchNext Match
13. Effect of possession of documents.Previous MatchNext Match
14. Interests of persons in possession.Previous MatchNext Match
15. Presumption that parties are of full age.Previous MatchNext Match
Trusts of landPrevious MatchNext Match
24. Appointment of trustees of land.Previous MatchNext Match
26. Consents to the execution of a trust for sale.Previous MatchNext Match
27. Purchaser not to be concerned with the trusts of the proceeds of sale which are to be paid to two or more trustees or to a trust corporation.Previous MatchNext Match
28. Powers of management, &c. conferred on trustees for sale. Previous MatchNext Match
29. Delegation of powers of management by trustees for sale.Previous MatchNext Match
30. Powers of court where trustees for sale refuse to exercise powers.Previous MatchNext Match
31. Trust of mortgaged property where right of redemption is barred.Previous MatchNext Match
32. Implied trust for sale in personalty settlements.Previous MatchNext Match
33. Application of Pt. I. to personal representatives.Previous MatchNext Match
Undivided Shares and Joint OwnershipPrevious MatchNext Match
Part II Contracts, Conveyances and other InstrumentsPrevious MatchNext Match
ContractsPrevious MatchNext Match
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41. Stipulations not of the essence of a contract.Previous MatchNext Match
43. Rights protected by registration.Previous MatchNext Match
44. Statutory commencements of title.Previous MatchNext Match
45. Other statutory conditions of sale.Previous MatchNext Match
46. Forms of contracts and conditions of sale. Previous MatchNext Match
47. Application of insurance money on completion of a sale or exchange.Previous MatchNext Match
48. Stipulations preventing a purchaser, lessee, or underlessee from employing his own solicitor to be void. Previous MatchNext Match
49. Applications to the court by vendor and purchaser.Previous MatchNext Match
50. Discharge of incumbrances by the court on sales or exchanges.Previous MatchNext Match
Conveyances and other InstrumentsPrevious MatchNext Match
53. Instruments required to be in writing.Previous MatchNext Match
54. Creation of interests in land by parol.Previous MatchNext Match
55. Savings in regard to last two sections.Previous MatchNext Match
56. Persons taking who are not parties and as to indentures.Previous MatchNext Match
58. Provisions as to supplemental instruments.Previous MatchNext Match
59. Conditions and certain covenants not implied.Previous MatchNext Match
60. Abolition of technicalities in regard to conveyances and deeds.Previous MatchNext Match
61. Construction of expressions used in deeds and other instruments.Previous MatchNext Match
62. General words implied in conveyances. Previous MatchNext Match
64. Production and safe custody of documents.Previous MatchNext Match
66. Confirmation of past transactions.Previous MatchNext Match
68. Receipt in deed or indorsed evidence.Previous MatchNext Match
69. Receipt in deed or indorsed authority for payment to solicitor. Previous MatchNext Match
70. Partial release of security from rentcharge.Previous MatchNext Match
71. Release of part of land affected from a judgment.Previous MatchNext Match
72. Conveyances by a person to himself, &c.Previous MatchNext Match
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74. Execution of instruments by or on behalf of corporations.Previous MatchNext Match
74A.Execution of instrument as a deedPrevious MatchNext Match
75. Rights of purchaser as to execution.Previous MatchNext Match
CovenantsPrevious MatchNext Match
77. Implied covenants in conveyances subject to rents. Previous MatchNext Match
78. Benefit of covenants relating to land.Previous MatchNext Match
79. Burden of covenants relating to land. Previous MatchNext Match
81. Effect of covenant with two or more jointly.Previous MatchNext Match
82. Covenants and agreements entered into by a person with himself and another or others.Previous MatchNext Match
83. Construction of implied covenants.Previous MatchNext Match
84. Power to discharge or modify restrictive covenants affecting land.Previous MatchNext Match
Part III Mortgages, Rentcharges, and Powers of AttorneyPrevious MatchNext Match
MortgagesPrevious MatchNext Match
87.Charges by way of legal mortgage.Previous MatchNext Match
88.Realisation of freehold mortgages.Previous MatchNext Match
89.Realisation of leasehold mortgages.Previous MatchNext Match
90.Realisation of equitable charges by the court.Previous MatchNext Match
91.Sale of mortgaged property in action for redemption or foreclosure.Previous MatchNext Match
92.Power to authorise land and minerals to be dealt with separately.Previous MatchNext Match
93.Restriction on consolidation of mortgages.Previous MatchNext Match
95.Obligation to transfer instead of re-conveying, and as to right to take possession.Previous MatchNext Match
96.Regulations respecting inspection, production and delivery of documents, and priorities.Previous MatchNext Match
97.Priorities as between puisne mortgages.Previous MatchNext Match
98.Actions for possession by mortgagors.Previous MatchNext Match
99.Leasing powers of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession.Previous MatchNext Match
100.Powers of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession to accept surrenders of leases.Previous MatchNext Match
101.Powers incident to estate or interest of mortgagee.Previous MatchNext Match
102.Provision as to mortgages of undivided shares in land.Previous MatchNext Match
103.Regulation of exercise of power of sale.Previous MatchNext Match
105.Application of proceeds of sale.Previous MatchNext Match
106.Provisions as to exercise of power of sale.Previous MatchNext Match
107.Mortgagee’s receipts, discharges, &c.Previous MatchNext Match
108.Amount and application of insurance money.Previous MatchNext Match
109.Appointment, powers, remuneration and duties of receiver.Previous MatchNext Match
110.Effect of bankruptcy of the mortgagor on the power to sell or appoint a receiver.Previous MatchNext Match
111.Effect of advance on joint account.Previous MatchNext Match
112.Notice of trusts on transfer of mortgage.Previous MatchNext Match
113.Notice of trusts affecting mortgage debts.Previous MatchNext Match
115.Reconveyances of mortgages by endorsed receipts.Previous MatchNext Match
117.Forms of statutory legal charges.Previous MatchNext Match
118.Forms of statutory transfers of legal charges.Previous MatchNext Match
119.Implied covenants, joint and several.Previous MatchNext Match
120.Form of discharge of statutory mortgage or charge.Previous MatchNext Match
RentchargesPrevious MatchNext Match
120B.Regulated rentcharges: notice of arrears before enforcementPrevious MatchNext Match
120C.Service of notice under section 120B: additional requirementPrevious MatchNext Match
120D.Regulated rentcharge arrears: administration chargesPrevious MatchNext Match
121.Remedies for the recovery of annual sums charged on land.Previous MatchNext Match
122.Creation of rentcharges charged on another rentcharge and remedies for recovery thereof.Previous MatchNext Match
122A.Contrary provision of no effectPrevious MatchNext Match
Powers of AttorneyPrevious MatchNext Match
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125.†Powers of attorney relating to land to be filed.Previous MatchNext Match
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Part IV Equitable Interests and things in ActionPrevious MatchNext Match
130. Creation of entailed interests in real and personal property.Previous MatchNext Match
131. Abolition of the rule in Shelley’s case.Previous MatchNext Match
132. As to heirs taking by purchase.Previous MatchNext Match
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134. Restriction on executory limitations.Previous MatchNext Match
136. Legal assignments of things in action.Previous MatchNext Match
137. Dealings with life interests, reversions and other equitable interests. Previous MatchNext Match
138. Power to nominate a trust corporation to receive notices.Previous MatchNext Match
Part V Leases and TenanciesPrevious MatchNext Match
139. Effect of extinguishment of reversion. Previous MatchNext Match
140. Apportionment of conditions on severance.Previous MatchNext Match
141. Rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with the reversion. Previous MatchNext Match
142. Obligation of lessor’s covenants to run with reversion.Previous MatchNext Match
143. Effect of licences granted to lessees.Previous MatchNext Match
144. No fine to be exacted for licence to assign.Previous MatchNext Match
145. Lessee to give notice of ejectment to lessor.Previous MatchNext Match
146. Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases and underleases.Previous MatchNext Match
147. Relief against notice to effect decorative repairs.Previous MatchNext Match
148. Waiver of a covenant in a lease.Previous MatchNext Match
149. Abolition of interesse termini, and as to reversionary leases and leases for lives.Previous MatchNext Match
150. Surrender of a lease, without prejudice to underleases with a view to the grant of a new lease.Previous MatchNext Match
151. Provision as to attornments by tenants.Previous MatchNext Match
152. Leases invalidated by reason of non-compliance with terms of powers under which they are granted.Previous MatchNext Match
153. Enlargement of residue of long terms into fee simple estates.Previous MatchNext Match
154. Application of Part V. to existing leases. Previous MatchNext Match
Part VI PowersPrevious MatchNext Match
155. Release of powers simply collateral.Previous MatchNext Match
157. Protection of purchasers claiming under certain void appointments.Previous MatchNext Match
158. Validation of appointments where objects are excluded or take illusory shares.Previous MatchNext Match
159. Execution of powers not testamentary.Previous MatchNext Match
160. Application of Part VI. to existing powers.Previous MatchNext Match
Part VII Perpetuities and AccumulationsPrevious MatchNext Match
Part VIII Married Women and LunaticsPrevious MatchNext Match
Part X WillsPrevious MatchNext Match
175. Contingent and future testamentary gifts to carry the intermediate income.Previous MatchNext Match
176. Power for tenant in tail in possession to dispose of property by specific devise or bequest.Previous MatchNext Match
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179. Prescribed forms for reference in wills.Previous MatchNext Match
Part XI MiscellaneousPrevious MatchNext Match
MiscellaneousPrevious MatchNext Match
182. Protection of solicitor and trustees adopting Act. Previous MatchNext Match
183. Fraudulent concealment of documents and falsification of pedigrees.Previous MatchNext Match
184. Presumption of survivorship in regard to claims to property. Previous MatchNext Match
186. Rights of pre-emption capable of release.Previous MatchNext Match
188. Power to direct division of chattels. Previous MatchNext Match
Redemption and Apportionment of Rents, &c.Previous MatchNext Match
190. Equitable apportionment of rents and remedies for non-payment or breach of covenant.Previous MatchNext Match
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192. Apportionment of charges payable for redemption of tithe rentcharge. Previous MatchNext Match
NoticesPrevious MatchNext Match
196. Regulations respecting notices. Previous MatchNext Match
197. Notice of memorials registered in Middlesex and Yorkshire. Previous MatchNext Match
198. Registration under the Land Charges Act, 1925, to be notice.Previous MatchNext Match
199. Restrictions on constructive notice. Previous MatchNext Match
200. Notice of restrictive covenants and easements.Previous MatchNext Match
Part XII Construction, Jurisdiction, and General ProvisionsPrevious MatchNext Match
201. Provisions of Act to apply to incorporeal hereditaments.Previous MatchNext Match
202. Provisions as to enfranchisement of copyholds, &c.Previous MatchNext Match
203. Payment into court, jurisdiction and procedure.Previous MatchNext Match
206. Forms of instruments and examples of abstracts.Previous MatchNext Match
207. Repeals as respects England and Wales.Previous MatchNext Match
209.Short title, commencement, and extent.Previous MatchNext Match
Law of Property Act 1925
FIRST SCHEDULEPrevious MatchNext Match
Transitional ProvisionsPrevious MatchNext Match
Part I Conversion of certain existing Legal Estates into Equitable InterestsPrevious MatchNext Match
Part II Vesting of Legal EstatesPrevious MatchNext Match
1.Where the purposes of a term of years, created or...Previous MatchNext Match
2.Where immediately after the commencement of this Act any owner...Previous MatchNext Match
3.Where immediately after the commencement of this Act any person...Previous MatchNext Match
4.Any person who, immediately after the commencement of this Act,...Previous MatchNext Match
5.For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, a...Previous MatchNext Match
6.Under the provisions of this Part of this Schedule, the...Previous MatchNext Match
7.Nothing in this Part of this Schedule shall operate— Previous MatchNext Match
8.Any legal estate acquired by virtue of this Part of...Previous MatchNext Match
9.No stamp duty shall become payable by reason only of...Previous MatchNext Match
Part III Provisions as to Legal Estate vested in InfantPrevious MatchNext Match
1.Where immediately before the commencement of this Act a legal...Previous MatchNext Match
2.Where immediately before the commencement of this Act a legal...Previous MatchNext Match
3.Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a legal...Previous MatchNext Match
3A.The county court has jurisdiction under proviso (iii) to paragraph...Previous MatchNext Match
4.Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a legal...Previous MatchNext Match
5.This Part of this Schedule does not affect the estate...Previous MatchNext Match
Part IV Provisions subjecting Land held in Undivided Shares to a Trust for SalePrevious MatchNext Match
1.Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, land is...Previous MatchNext Match
2.Where undivided shares in land, created before the commencement of...Previous MatchNext Match
3.This Part of this Schedule shall not save as hereinafter...Previous MatchNext Match
4.Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, there are...Previous MatchNext Match
Part V Provisions as to Party Structures and Open SpacesPrevious MatchNext Match
Part VI Conversion of Tenancies by entireties into Joint TenanciesPrevious MatchNext Match
Part VII Conversion of existing Freehold Mortgages into Mortgages by DemisePrevious MatchNext Match
1.All land, which immediately before the commencement of this Act,...Previous MatchNext Match
2.All land, which immediately before the commencement of this Act,...Previous MatchNext Match
3.The estate in fee simple which, immediately before the commencement...Previous MatchNext Match
4.If a sub-mortgage by conveyance of the fee simple is...Previous MatchNext Match
5.This Part of this Schedule applies to land enfranchised by...Previous MatchNext Match
6.A mortgage affecting a legal estate made before the commencement...Previous MatchNext Match
7.Nothing in this Part of this Schedule shall affect priorities...Previous MatchNext Match
8.This Part of this Schedule does not apply unless a...Previous MatchNext Match
Part VIII Conversion of existing Leasehold Mortgages into Mortgages by subdemisePrevious MatchNext Match
1.All leasehold land, which immediately before the commencement of this...Previous MatchNext Match
2.All leasehold land, which immediately before the commencement of this...Previous MatchNext Match
3.The term of years absolute which was assigned by any...Previous MatchNext Match
4.If a sub-mortgage by assignment of a term is subsisting...Previous MatchNext Match
5.A mortgage affecting a legal estate made before the commencement...Previous MatchNext Match
6.This Part of this Schedule applies to perpetually renewable leaseholds,...Previous MatchNext Match
7.This Part of this Schedule applies (save where expressly excepted)...Previous MatchNext Match
8.Nothing in this Part of this Schedule shall affect priorities...Previous MatchNext Match
SECOND SCHEDULEPrevious MatchNext Match
Implied CovenantsPrevious MatchNext Match
Part VII Covenant implied in a Conveyance for valuable consideration, other than a Mortgage, of the Entirety of Land affected by a RentchargePrevious MatchNext Match
Part VIII Covenants implied in a Conveyance for valuable Consideration, other than a Mortgage, or Part of Land affected by a Rentcharge, subject to a Part (not legally apportioned) of that RentchargePrevious MatchNext Match
Part IX Covenant in a Conveyance for valuable Consideration, other than a Mortgage, of the Entirety of the Land comprised in a Lease for the Residue of the Term or Interest created by the LeasePrevious MatchNext Match
Part X Covenants implied in a Conveyance for valuable Consideration, other than a Mortgage, or Part of the Land comprised in a Lease, for the Residue of the Term or Interest created by the Lease, subject to a Part (not legally apportioned) of that RentPrevious MatchNext Match
THIRD SCHEDULEPrevious MatchNext Match
Forms of Transfer and Discharge of MortgagesPrevious MatchNext Match
FOURTH SCHEDULEPrevious MatchNext Match
Forms relating to Statutory Charges or Mortgages of Freehold or Leasehold LandPrevious MatchNext Match
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