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Law of Property Act 1925

Law of Property Act 1925

1925 c.20 · 211 provisions

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to conveyancing and the law of property in England and Wales.

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

Section 1: Legal estates and equitable interests.
Section 2: Conveyances overreaching certain equitable interests and powers.
Section 3: Manner of giving effect to equitable interests and powers.
Section 4: Creation and disposition of equitable interests.
Section 5: Satisfied terms, whether created out of freehold or leasehold land to cease.
Section 6: Saving of lessors’ and lessees’ covenants.
Section 7: Saving of certain legal estates and statutory powers.
Section 8: Saving of certain legal powers to lease.
Section 9: Vesting orders and dispositions of legal estates operating as conveyances by an estate owner.
Section 10: Title to be shown to legal estates.
Section 11: Registration in Middlesex and Yorkshire as respects legal estates.
Section 12: Limitation and Prescription Acts.
Section 13: Effect of possession of documents.
Section 14: Interests of persons in possession.
Section 15: Presumption that parties are of full age.

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers.

Section 16–18: Liability for death duties. (omitted)
Section 17: Protection of purchasers from liability for death duties. (omitted)
Section 18: Application of capital money in discharge of death duties. (omitted)
Section 19: Effect of conveyances of legal estates to infants. (repealed 1997-01-01)

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

Section 20: Infants not to be appointed trustees.
Section 21: Receipts by married infants.
Section 22: Conveyances on behalf of persons suffering from mental disorder and as to land held by them in trust.

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers.

Section 23: Duration of trusts for sale. (repealed 1997-01-01)

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

Section 24: Appointment of trustees of land.

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers.

Section 25: Power to postpone sale. (repealed 1997-01-01)
Section 26: Consents to the execution of a trust for sale. (repealed 1997-01-01)

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

Section 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.

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers.

Section 28: Powers of management, &c. conferred on trustees for sale. (repealed 1997-01-01)
Section 29: Delegation of powers of management by trustees for sale. (repealed 1997-01-01)
Section 30: Powers of court where trustees for sale refuse to exercise powers. (repealed 1997-01-01)

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

Section 31: Trust of mortgaged property where right of redemption is barred.

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers.

Section 32: Implied trust for sale in personalty settlements. (repealed 1997-01-01)

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

Section 33: Application of Pt. I. to personal representatives.
Section 34: Effect of future dispositions to tenants in common.

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers.

Section 35: Meaning of " the statutory trusts.". (repealed 1997-01-01)

Part I: General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

Section 36: Joint tenancies.
Section 37: Rights of husband and wife.
Section 38: Party structures.
Section 39: Transitional provisions in First Schedule.

Part II: Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments.

Section 40: Contracts for sale, &c, of land to be in writing. (omitted)

Part II: Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments

Section 41: Stipulations not of the essence of a contract.
Section 42: Provisions as to contracts.
Section 43: Rights protected by registration.
Section 44: Statutory commencements of title.
Section 45: Other statutory conditions of sale.
Section 46: Forms of contracts and conditions of sale.
Section 47: Application of insurance money on completion of a sale or exchange.
Section 48: Stipulations preventing a purchaser, lessee, or underlessee from employing his own solicitor to be void.
Section 49: Applications to the court by vendor and purchaser.
Section 50: Discharge of incumbrances by the court on sales or exchanges.
Section 51: Lands lie in grant only.
Section 52: Conveyances to be by deed.
Section 53: Instruments required to be in writing.
Section 54: Creation of interests in land by parol.
Section 55: Savings in regard to last two sections.
Section 56: Persons taking who are not parties and as to indentures.
Section 57: Description of deeds.
Section 58: Provisions as to supplemental instruments.
Section 59: Conditions and certain covenants not implied.
Section 60: Abolition of technicalities in regard to conveyances and deeds.
Section 61: Construction of expressions used in deeds and other instruments.
Section 62: General words implied in conveyances.
Section 63: All estate clause implied.
Section 64: Production and safe custody of documents.
Section 65: Reservation of legal estates.
Section 66: Confirmation of past transactions.
Section 67: Receipt in deed sufficient.
Section 68: Receipt in deed or indorsed evidence.
Section 69: Receipt in deed or indorsed authority for payment to solicitor.
Section 70: Partial release of security from rentcharge.
Section 71: Release of part of land affected from a judgment.
Section 72: Conveyances by a person to himself, &c.

Part II: Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments.

Section 73: Execution of deeds by an individual. (omitted)

Part II: Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments

Section 74: Execution of instruments by or on behalf of corporations.
Section 74A: Execution of instrument as a deed
Section 75: Rights of purchaser as to execution.

Part II: Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments.

Section 76: Covenants for title. (repealed 1995-07-01)

Part II: Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments

Section 77: Implied covenants in conveyances subject to rents.
Section 78: Benefit of covenants relating to land.
Section 79: Burden of covenants relating to land.
Section 80: Covenants binding land.
Section 81: Effect of covenant with two or more jointly.
Section 82: Covenants and agreements entered into by a person with himself and another or others.
Section 83: Construction of implied covenants.
Section 84: Power to discharge or modify restrictive covenants affecting land.

Part III: Mortgages, Rentcharges, and Powers of Attorney

Section 85: Mode of mortgaging freeholds.
Section 86: Mode of mortgaging leaseholds.
Section 87: Charges by way of legal mortgage.
Section 88: Realisation of freehold mortgages.
Section 89: Realisation of leasehold mortgages.
Section 90: Realisation of equitable charges by the court.
Section 91: Sale of mortgaged property in action for redemption or foreclosure.
Section 92: Power to authorise land and minerals to be dealt with separately.
Section 93: Restriction on consolidation of mortgages.
Section 94: Tacking and further advances.
Section 95: Obligation to transfer instead of re-conveying, and as to right to take possession.
Section 96: Regulations respecting inspection, production and delivery of documents, and priorities.
Section 97: Priorities as between puisne mortgages.
Section 98: Actions for possession by mortgagors.
Section 99: Leasing powers of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession.
Section 100: Powers of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession to accept surrenders of leases.
Section 101: Powers incident to estate or interest of mortgagee.
Section 102: Provision as to mortgages of undivided shares in land.
Section 103: Regulation of exercise of power of sale.
Section 104: Conveyance on sale.
Section 105: Application of proceeds of sale.
Section 106: Provisions as to exercise of power of sale.
Section 107: Mortgagee’s receipts, discharges, &c.
Section 108: Amount and application of insurance money.
Section 109: Appointment, powers, remuneration and duties of receiver.
Section 110: Effect of bankruptcy of the mortgagor on the power to sell or appoint a receiver.
Section 111: Effect of advance on joint account.
Section 112: Notice of trusts on transfer of mortgage. (repealed 2004-07-22)
Section 113: Notice of trusts affecting mortgage debts.
Section 114: Transfers of mortgages.
Section 115: Reconveyances of mortgages by endorsed receipts.
Section 116: Cesser of mortgage terms.
Section 117: Forms of statutory legal charges.
Section 118: Forms of statutory transfers of legal charges.
Section 119: Implied covenants, joint and several.
Section 120: Form of discharge of statutory mortgage or charge.
Section 120A: Interpretation
Section 120B: Regulated rentcharges: notice of arrears before enforcement
Section 120C: Service of notice under section 120B: additional requirement
Section 120D: Regulated rentcharge arrears: administration charges
Section 121: Remedies for the recovery of annual sums charged on land.
Section 122: Creation of rentcharges charged on another rentcharge and remedies for recovery thereof.
Section 122A: Contrary provision of no effect

Part III: Mortgages, Rentcharges, and Powers of Attorney.

Section 123: Execution under power of attorney. (omitted 2014-08-01)
Section 124: Payment by attorney under power without notice of death, &c. (omitted 2014-08-01)

Part III: Mortgages, Rentcharges, and Powers of Attorney

Section 125: †Powers of attorney relating to land to be filed.

Part III: Mortgages, Rentcharges, and Powers of Attorney.

Section 126–129: Effect of irrevocable power of attorney for value. (omitted 2014-08-01)
Section 127: Effect of power of attorney irrevocable for a fixed time. (omitted)
Section 128: Devolution of power of attorney given to a purchaser. (omitted)
Section 129: Power of attorney granted by married woman. (omitted)

Part IV: Equitable Interests and things in Action

Section 130: . . . Entailed interests in real and personal property.
Section 131: Abolition of the rule in Shelley’s case.
Section 132: As to heirs taking by purchase.

Part IV: Equitable Interests and things in Action.

Section 133: Abolition of enrolment of disentailing assurances, &c. (omitted)

Part IV: Equitable Interests and things in Action

Section 134: Restriction on executory limitations.
Section 135: Equitable waste.
Section 136: Legal assignments of things in action.
Section 137: Dealings with life interests, reversions and other equitable interests.
Section 138: Power to nominate a trust corporation to receive notices.

Part V: Leases and Tenancies

Section 139: Effect of extinguishment of reversion.
Section 140: Apportionment of conditions on severance.
Section 141: Rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with the reversion.
Section 142: Obligation of lessor’s covenants to run with reversion.
Section 143: Effect of licences granted to lessees.
Section 144: No fine to be exacted for licence to assign.
Section 145: Lessee to give notice of ejectment to lessor.
Section 146: Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases and underleases.
Section 147: Relief against notice to effect decorative repairs.
Section 148: Waiver of a covenant in a lease.
Section 149: Abolition of interesse termini, and as to reversionary leases and leases for lives.
Section 150: Surrender of a lease, without prejudice to underleases with a view to the grant of a new lease.
Section 152: Leases invalidated by reason of non-compliance with terms of powers under which they are granted.
Section 153: Enlargement of residue of long terms into fee simple estates.
Section 154: Application of Part V. to existing leases.

Part VI: Powers

Section 155: Release of powers simply collateral.
Section 156: Disclaimer of power.
Section 157: Protection of purchasers claiming under certain void appointments.
Section 158: Validation of appointments where objects are excluded or take illusory shares.
Section 159: Execution of powers not testamentary.
Section 160: Application of Part VI. to existing powers.

Part VII: Perpetuities and Accumulations

Section 161: Abolition of the double possibility rule.
Section 162: Restrictions on the perpetuity rule. (repealed 2010-04-06)

Part VII: Perpetuities and Accumulations.

Section 163: Validation of certain gifts void for remoteness. (omitted)

Part VII: Perpetuities and Accumulations

Section 164: General restrictions on accumulation of income. (repealed 2010-04-06)
Section 165: Qualification of restrictions on accumulation. (repealed 2010-04-06)
Section 166: Restriction on accumulation for the purchase of land. (repealed 2010-04-06)

Part VIII: Married Women and Lunatics.

Section 167–170: Abolition of acknowledgments by married women. (omitted)
Section 168: Disclaimer by married woman. (omitted)
Section 169: Power for court to bind interest of married woman. (omitted)
Section 170: Acquisitions and dispositions of trust estates by married women. (omitted)
Section 171: Power for court to settle the beneficial interests of a lunatic or defective. (omitted)

Part IX: Voidable Dispositions.

Section 172: Voluntary conveyances to defraud creditors voidable. (omitted)

Part IX: Voidable Dispositions

Section 173: Voluntary disposition of land how far voidable as against purchasers.
Section 174: Acquisitions of reversions at an under value.

Part X: Wills

Section 175: Contingent and future testamentary gifts to carry the intermediate income.
Section 176: Power for tenant in tail in possession to dispose of property by specific devise or bequest.

Part X: Wills.

Section 177: Wills in contemplation of marriage. (omitted)
Section 178: Power for persons having no issue to dispose of real estate by will. (omitted)

Part X: Wills

Section 179: Prescribed forms for reference in wills.

Part XI: Miscellaneous

Section 180: Provisions as to corporations.
Section 181: Dissolution of a corporation.
Section 182: Protection of solicitor and trustees adopting Act.
Section 183: Fraudulent concealment of documents and falsification of pedigrees.
Section 184: Presumption of survivorship in regard to claims to property.
Section 185: Merger.
Section 186: Rights of pre-emption capable of release.
Section 187: Legal easements.
Section 188: Power to direct division of chattels.
Section 189: Indemnities against rents.
Section 190: Equitable apportionment of rents and remedies for non-payment or breach of covenant.

Part XI: Miscellaneous.

Section 191: Redemption and apportionment of rents. (omitted)

Part XI: Miscellaneous

Section 192: Apportionment of charges payable for redemption of tithe rentcharge.
Section 193: Rights of the public over commons and waste lands.
Section 194: Restrictions on inclosure of commons. (repealed 2007-10-01)
Section 195: Equitable charges in right of judgment debt, &c.
Section 196: Regulations respecting notices.
Section 197: Notice of memorials registered in Middlesex and Yorkshire.
Section 198: Registration under the Land Charges Act, 1925, to be notice.
Section 199: Restrictions on constructive notice.
Section 200: Notice of restrictive covenants and easements.

Part XII: Construction, Jurisdiction, and General Provisions

Section 201: Provisions of Act to apply to incorporeal hereditaments.
Section 202: Provisions as to enfranchisement of copyholds, &c.
Section 203: Payment into court, jurisdiction and procedure.
Section 204: Orders of court conclusive.
Section 205: General definitions.
Section 206: Forms of instruments and examples of abstracts. (repealed 2004-07-22)
Section 207: Repeals as respects England and Wales.
Section 208: Application to the Crown.
Section 209: Short title, commencement, and extent.

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