Freehold Estates in Land

Question 1

Spiro v Glencrown Properties

Answer 1

Initial creation of the option contract has to comply with s2 LPMPA

Question 2

Firstpost Homes v Johnson

Answer 2

Printing or typing name does not count as signature

Question 3

Record v Bell

Answer 3

A collateral contract made to induce the main land contract does not have to comply with s2 LPMPA

Question 4

Wright v Robert Leonard Developments

Answer 4

Oral agreement to sell furnishings with the land, so should have been in the same written contract
Rectified by equity if compelling evidence both parties intended it to be in the document and left it out by mistake (s2(4) LPMPA)

Question 5

Ruddick v Ormston

Answer 5

Casual contract did not contain all the agreed terms - not valid

Question 6

Commission for the New Towns v Cooper

Answer 6

Cannot have a valid contract for sale of land via correspondence