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Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. I Preliminary

    1. 1.Short title; commencement; extent

    2. 2.Interpretation of property, land, &c

  3. II Sales and other Transactions

    1. Contracts for Sale

      1. 3.Application of stated conditions of sale to all purchases

      2. 4.Completion of contract after death

    2. Discharge of Incumbrances on Sale

      1. 5.Provision by Court for incumbrances, and sale freed therefrom

    3. General Words

      1. 6.General words in conveyances of land, buildings, or manor

    4. Covenants for Title

      1. 7.Covenants for title to be implied.

    5. Execution of Purchase Deed

      1. 8.Rights of purchaser as to execution

    6. Production and Safe Custody of Title Deeds

      1. 9.Acknowledgment of right to production, and undertaking for safe custody of documents

  4. III Leases

    1. 10.Rent and benefit of lessees covenants to run with reversion

    2. 11.Obligation of lessors covenants to run with reversion

    3. 12.Apportionment of conditions on severance, &c

    4. 13.On sub-demise, title to leasehold reversion not to be required

    5. Forfeiture

      1. 14.Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases

  5. IV Mortgages

    1. 15.Obligation on mortgagee to transfer instead of re-conveying

    2. 16.Power for mortgagor to inspect title deeds

    3. 17.Restriction on consolidation of mortgages

    4. Leases

      1. 18.Leasing powers of mortgagor and of mortgagee in possession

    5. Sale; Insurance; Receiver; Timber

      1. 19.Powers incident to estate or interest of mortgagee

      2. 20.Regulation of exercise of power of sale

      3. 21.Conveyance, receipt, &c. on sale

      4. 22.Mortgagee's receipts, discharges, &c

      5. 23.Amount and application of insurance money

      6. 24.Appointment, powers, remuneration, and duties of receiver

    6. Action respecting Mortgage

      1. 25.Sale of mortgaged property in action for foreclosure, &c

  6. V Statutory Mortgage

    1. 26.Form of statutory mortgage in schedule

    2. 27.Forms of statutory transfer of mortgage in schedule

    3. 28.Implied covenants, joint and several

    4. 29.Form of re-conveyance of statutory mortgage in schedule

  7. VI Trust and Mortgage Estates on Death

    1. 30.Devolution of trust and mortgage estates on death

  8. VII Trustees and Executors

    1. 31.Appointment of new trustees, vesting of trust property, &c

    2. 32.Retirement of trustee

    3. 33.Power of new trustee appointed by court

    4. 34.Vesting of trust property in new or continuing trustees

    5. 35.Power for trustees for sale to sell by auction, &c

    6. 36.Trustees receipts

    7. 37.Power for executors and trustees to compound, &c

    8. 38.Powers to two or more executors or trustees

  9. VIII Married Women

    1. 39.Power for court to bind interest of married woman

    2. 40.Power of attorney of married woman

  10. IX Infants

    1. 41.Sales and leases on behalf of infant owner

    2. 42.Management of land and receipt and application of income during minority

    3. 43.Application by trustees of income of property of infant for maintenance, &c

  11. X Rentcharges and other Annual Sums

    1. 44.Remedies for recovery of annual sums charged on land

    2. 45.Redemption of quitrents and other perpetual charges

  12. XI Powers of Attorney

    1. 46.Execution under power of attorney

    2. 47.Payment by attorney under power without notice of death, &c good

    3. 48.Deposit of original instruments creating powers of attorney

  13. XII Construction and Effect of Deeds and other Instruments

    1. 49.Use of word grant unnecessary

    2. 50.Conveyance by a person to himself, &c

    3. 51.Words of limitation in fee or in tail

    4. 52.Powers simply collateral

    5. 53.Construction of supplemental or annexed deed

    6. 54.Receipt in deed sufficient

    7. 55.Receipt in deed or indorsed, evidence for subsequent purchaser

    8. 56.Receipt in deed or indorsed, authority for payment to solicitor

    9. 57.Sufficiency of forms in Fourth Schedule

    10. 58.Covenants to bind heirs, &c

    11. 59.Covenants to extend to heirs, &c

    12. 60.Effect of covenant with two or more jointly

    13. 61.Effect of advance or joint account, &c

    14. 62.Grants of easements, &c. by way of use

    15. 63.Provision for all the estate, &c

    16. 64.Construction of implied covenants

  14. XIII Long Terms

    1. 65.Enlargement of residue of long term into fee simple

  15. XIV Adoption of Act

    1. 66.Protection of solicitor and trustees adopting Act

  16. XV Miscellaneous

    1. 67.Regulations respecting notice

    2. 68.Short title of 5 & 6 Will.4 c.62

  17. XVI Court; Procedure; Orders

    1. 69.Regulations respecting payments into court and applications

    2. 70.Orders of Court conclusive

  18. XVII Repeals

    1. 71.Repeal of enactments in Part III of Second Schedule; restriction on all appeals

  19. XVIII Ireland

    1. 72.Modifications respecting Ireland

    2. 73.Death of bare trustee intestate, &c

  20. SCHEDULES.

    1. FIRST SCHEDULE

      Acts affected

      1. PART I

      2. PART II

    2. SECOND SCHEDULE

      Repeals

    3. THIRD SCHEDULE

      Statutory Mortgage

      1. PART I

      2. PART II

      3. PART III

    4. FOURTH SCHEDULE

      Short Forms of Deeds

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