Part 9Rights of persons acquiring etc. in good faith

Ownership

87Acquisition from representative of disponer without valid title

(1)

Section 86 also applies where a person (“P”), who is not entered in the proprietorship section of the title sheet as proprietor but who would have power to dispone the land—

(a)

were A the proprietor, or

(b)

(where A has died) had A been the proprietor,

purports to dispone it.

(2)

For the purposes of section 86, possession of the plot of land by P is to be treated as if it were possession of the land by A.