Law of Property Act 1922

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1922 c. 16
3 w of Property Act, 1922.
& 13 Quo. 5. CH. 16.]
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
PART I.
ASSIMILATION AND AMENDMENT OF THE LAW OF
REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers.
Sect ion.
1. " Legal estates " and " equitable interests " and
repeal of the, Statute of Uses.
2. The getting in of bare outstanding legal estates.
3. Purchaser of legal estate not concerned with certain
equitable interests or powers ; and provisions for
the protection thereof.
.4. Enforcement of equitable interests and powers.
5. Title to be shown to legal estates.
6. Registration in Middlesex and Yorkshire.
7. Provisions as to contracts.
S. Rights protected by registration.
Mortgages.
9. Effect, creation, and realisation of mortgages of
freeholds and leaseholds.
Undivided Shares.
10. The entirety of land held in undivided shares to
vest in trustees for sale, with power to postpone
the sale.
Dispositions on Trust for Sale.
11. Provisions for regulating and facilitating dealings
with land held on trust for sale.
Settlements.
12. Regulations respecting settlements of land.
Infants and Lunatics.
13. Infants not to take legal estates; conveyances on
behalf of lunatics. a i
A.D. 1922.
[CH. 16.] Law of Property-Act, 1922. [12 & 13 GEO. 5.]
A.D. 1922. Land Charges.
Section.-
14. Amendment of the Land Charges Registration and
Searches Act, 1888, in respect of death duties
and other matters.
Death Duties and Bankruptcies.
15. Provisions for payment of death duties and pro-
tection of purchasers therefrom.
16. As to bankruptcies of estate owners.
Amendments of the General Law.
17. Abolition of technicalities respecting the creation
of entailed interests and of the rule in Shelley's
case.
18. Abolition of the double possibility rule.
19. As to heirs taking by purchase.
Miscellaneous Provisions.
20. Rights of pre-emption and entry, and extension of
the Satisfied Terms Act.
21. Vesting orders and dispositions of legal, estates
operating as conveyances by an estate owner.
22. Provisions of Act to apply to incorporeal heredita-
ments.
23. Easements.
24. Reservations.
25. Confirmation of'past transactions.
26. Charitable and public trusts.
27. Examples of abstracts of title and instruments.
Savings and Reservations.
28. Legal interests converted into equitable interests
not to fail.
29. Special statutory modes for conveying or acquiring
land.
30. Leasing powers.
31. Limitation and Prescription Acts.
32. Effect of possession of documents.
33. Interests of persons in possession.
Construction.
34. Construction.
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[12 & 13 GEO.5.] Law of Property Act, 1922. [CH. 16.
PART II. A.D. 1922.
AMENDMENTS OF THE SETTLED LAND ACTS.
Section.
35. Amendments consequential on other Parts of this
Act.
36. Power on dispositions to impose restrictions and
reserve easements, and as to valuation of timber
on sale.
37. As to sale of mansion.
38. Power to acquire land subject to certain incum-
brances, and power for a tenant for life to accept
leases.
39. Extension of section 10 of the Lands Clauses Con-
solidation Act, 1845.
40. Consideration on sale to company incorporated by
special Act or provisional order.
41. Power to grant water rights to statutory bodies for
nominal consideration, and to make grants or
leases for public purposes for a nominal con-
sideration or gratuitously.
42. Extension of sections 6 and 7 of the Act of 1882.
43. Power to sell in consideration of a rentcharge, and
extension of section 13 of the Act of 1882.
44. Power to grant options.
45. Power to compromise claims and release restric-
tions, &c., and to vary leases and grants, and
apportion rents.
46. General power for the tenant for life to'effect any
transaction under an order of the Court.
47. Extension of section 20 of the Act of 1882.
48. As to duration of settlements.
49. As to trustees of settlements created by more than
one instrument.
50. As to trustees of referential settlements.
51. As to who are trustees for the purposes of the Acts,
and as to additional powers to appoint trustees.
52. As to base fees.
53. Absolute owners, subject to certain interests, to have
the powers of a tenant for life, and as to infants.
54. Exercise of powers of tenant for life by married
woman restrained from anticipation. iii

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