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Registered land in English law accounts for around 88 per cent of the total land mass. Since 1925, English land law has required that proprietary interests in land be registered, except in cases where it is necessary to protect social or family interests that cannot reasonably be expected to be registered.
The Land Registry has been dealing with the registration of all transactions (purchase, sale, mortgage, remortgage and other burdens) concerning registered land since 1892, and issued land certificates which are a state guarantee of the registered owner's good title up to 1 January 2007. Land Certificates have been abolished by virtue of ...
Since, in contrast to the Torrens system, the registry is merely a record of all instruments related to the land, the "owner" as shown on the land registry record (or common known as "land search record" in Hong Kong) does not necessarily mean that he has a "good title", which means a title that is not defeasible or potentially defeasible.
On marriage, the husband gained the right to possess his wife's land during the marriage, including any acquired after the marriage. [3] Whilst he did not gain the formal legal title to the lands, he was able to spend the rents and profits of the land and sell his right, even if the wife protested.
Long title: An Act to amend the procedure under the Land Registration Act, 1925, for the making of orders declaring the registration of title to land to be compulsory on sale; to provide for the partial closing of, and otherwise amend the law with respect to, the Middlesex Deeds Registry; to amend subsection (4) of section seventy-five of the Land Registration Act, 1925; to amend the law with ...
Land law, or the law of "real" property, is the most significant area of property law that is typically compulsory on university courses. Although capital, often held in corporations and trusts, has displaced land as the dominant repository of social wealth, land law still determines the quality and cost of people's home life, where businesses and industry can be run, and where agriculture ...
The Land Registration Act 2002. London: Butterworths Law. ISBN 0-406-95764-9. Law Commission & HM Land Registry (2001) Land Registration for the Twenty-first Century – A Conveyancing Revolution, London: The Stationery Office; Office of Public Sector Information (2002). "Explanatory Notes to Land Registration Act 2002". The National Archives
Before the Land Registration Act 2002 it was possible to register lordship titles; most did not seek to register. [14] Since 13 October 2003 one cannot apply for first registration of a title of a manor; however, dealings in previously registered titles remain subject to compulsory registration with HM Land Registry. [15]