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The Law of Property Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 20) is a statute of the United Kingdom Parliament. It forms part of an interrelated programme of legislation introduced by Lord Chancellor Lord Birkenhead between 1922 and 1925. The programme was intended to modernise the English law of real property.
The principal Acts are the Law of Property Act 1925, the Land Registration Act 1925 (which was largely repealed and updated by the Land Registration Act 2002), the Land Charges Act 1925 (which was largely repealed and updated by the Land Charges Act 1972), the Settled Land Act 1925 and the Trustee Act 1925 (both of which were reformed by the ...
Law of Property Act 1925. 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 20. 9 April 1925. An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Conveyancing and the Law of Property in England and Wales.
If an interest in land is the subject of a contract, the law isolates three steps. First, the sale will take place, which according to LPMPA 1989 section 2 may only occur with signed writing (though by section 2(5) and the Law of Property Act 1925, section 54(2) leases under 3 years can be made without). Second, technically the transfer must ...
Law of Property Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the British Virgin Islands relating to property law. The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Law of Property Bill during its passage through Parliament .
Law of Property Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 20) Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (c. 47) The primary aim of the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890 was, as Lord Halsbury stated in Bruce v. Ailesbury, [1] "to release the land from the fetters of the settlement – to render it a marketable article not withstanding the settlement".
The history of rent control in England and Wales is a part of English land law concerning the development of rent regulation in England and Wales.Controlling the prices that landlords could make their tenants pay formed the main element of rent regulation, and was in place from 1915 until its abolition (excluding some council houses) by the Housing Act 1988.
In any event, in the normal case, the purchaser will overreach and in such cases it is immaterial whether the purchaser knows of the equitable family interest or not. (Law of Property Act 1925; Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996) Restrictions are also useful to control dealings with the land as a secondary means of protection.