Conveyancing Act 1882
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Conveyancing Act, 1882
(45 & 46 Vict.) CHAPTER 39.
An Act for further improving the Practice of Conveyancing; and for other purposes.
[10th August 1882]
B E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Preliminary.
1 Short titles; commencement; extent; interpretation.
(1)1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Conveyancing Act, 1882 ; and the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act, 1881 (in this Act referred to as the Conveyancing Act of 1881) and this Act may be cited together as the Conveyancing Acts, 1881, 1882.
(2) (2.) This Act, except where it is otherwise expressed, shall commence and take effect from and immediately after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, which time is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act.
(3) (3.) This Act does not extend to Scotland.
(4) (4.) In this Act and in the Schedule thereto—
(i.) Property includes real and personal property, and any debt, and any thing in action, and any other right or interest in the nature of property, whether in possession or not;
(ii.) Purchaser includes a lessee or mortgagee, or an intending purchaser, lessee, or mortgagee, or other person, who, for valuable consideration, takes or deals for property, and purchase has a meaning corresponding with that of purchaser;
(iii.) The Act of the session of the third and fourth years of King William the Fourth (chapter seventy-four) ‘for the abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of Assurance’ is referred to as the Fines and Recoveries Act ; and the Act of the session of the fourth and fifth years of King William the Fourth (chapter ninety-two) ‘for the abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of Assurance in Ireland’ is referred to as the Fines and Recoveries (Ireland) Act.
Searches.
2 Official negative and other certificates of searches for judgments, crown debts, &c.
(1)2.—(1.) Where any person requires, for purposes of this section, search to be made in the Central Office of the Supreme Court of Judicature for entries of judgments, deeds, or other matters or documents, whereof entries are required or allowed to be made in that office by any Act described in Part I. of the First Schedule to the Conveyancing Act of 1881, or by any other Act, he may deliver in the office a requisition in that behalf, referring to this section.
(2) (2.) Thereupon the proper officer shall diligently make the search required, and shall make and file in the office a certificate setting forth the result thereof; and office copies of that certificate shall be issued on requisition, and an office copy shall be evidence of the certificate.
(3)Searches. (3.) In favour of a purchaser, as against persons interested under or in respect of judgments, deeds, or other matters or documents, whereof entries are required or allowed as aforesaid, the certificate, according to the tenour thereof, shall be conclusive, affirmatively or negatively, as the case may be.
(4) (4.) Every requisition under this section shall be in writing, signed by the person making the same, specifying the name against which he desires search to be made, or in relation to which he requires an office copy certificate of result of search, and other sufficient particulars; and the person making any such requisition shall not be entitled to a search, or an office copy certificate, until he has satisfied the proper officer that the same is required for the purposes of this section.
(5) (5.) General Rules shall be made for purposes of this section, prescribing forms and contents of requisitions and certificates, and regulating the practice of the office, and prescribing, with the concurrence of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the fees to be taken therein; which Rules shall be deemed Rules of Court within section seventeen of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876 , as altered by section nineteen of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1881 , and may be made, at any time after the passing of this Act, to take effect on or after the commencement of this Act.
(6) (6.) If any officer, clerk, or person employed in the office commits, or is party or privy to, any act of fraud or collusion, or is wilfully negligent, in the making of or otherwise in relation to any certificate or office copy under this section, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
(7) (7.) Nothing in this section or in any Rule made thereunder shall take away, abridge, or prejudicially affect any right which any person may have independently of this section to make any search in the office; and every such search may be made as if this section or any such Rule bad not been enacted or made.
(8) (8.) Where a solicitor obtains an office copy certificate of result of search under this section, he shall not be answerable in respect of any loss that may arise from error in the certificate.
(9) (9.) Where the solicitor is acting for trustees, executors, agents, or other persons in a fiduciary position, those persons also shall not be so answerable.
(10) (10.) Where such persons obtain such an office copy without a solicitor, they shall also be protected in like manner.
(11) (11.) Nothing in this section applies to deeds inrolled under the Fines and Recoveries Act , or under any other Act, or under any statutory Rule.
(12) (12.) This section does not extend to Ireland.
Notice.
3 Restriction on constructive notice.
(1)3.—(1.) A purchaser shall not be prejudicially affected by notice of any instrument, fact, or thing unless—
(i.) It is within his own knowledge, or would have come to his knowledge if such inquiries and inspections had been made as ought reasonably to have been made by him; or
(ii.) In the same transaction with respect to which a question of notice to the purchaser arises, it has come to the knowledge of his counsel, as such, or of his solicitor, or other agent, as such, or would have come to the knowledge of his solicitor, or other agent, as such, if such inquiries and inspections had been made as ought reasonably to have been made by the solicitor or other agent.
(2) (2.) This section shall not exempt a purchaser from any liability under, or any obligation to perform or observe, any covenant, condition, provision, or restriction contained in any instrument under which his title is derived, mediately or immediately; and such liability or obligation may be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as if this section had not been enacted.
(3) (3.) A purchaser shall not by reason of anything in this section be affected by notice in any case where he would not have been so affected if this section had not been enacted.
(4) (4.) This section applies to purchases made either before or after the commencement of this Act; save that, where an action is pending at the commencement of this Act, the rights of the parties shall not be affected by this section.
Leases.
4 Contact for lease not part of title to lease.
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