Section 124: Payment by attorney under power without notice of death, &c.

Law of Property Act 1925 · 1925 c. 20View on legislation.gov.uk

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Part III: Mortgages, Rentcharges, and Powers of Attorney

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Any person making any payment or doing any act, in good faith, in pursuance of a power of attorney, shall not be liable in respect of the payment or act by reason that before the payment or act the donor of the power had died or become subject to disability or bankrupt, or had revoked the power, if the fact of death, disability, bankruptcy, or revocation was not at the time of the payment or act known to the person making or doing the same.

This section does not affect any right against the payee of any person interested in any money so paid; and that person shall have the like remedy against the payee as he would have had against the payer if the payment had not been made by him.

This section applies to payments and acts made and done before or after the commencement of this Act, and in this section "power of attorney" includes a power of attorney implied by statute.

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