Key Statutes

Question 1

s.1(1) LPA 1925

Answer 1

Estates capable of being legal

Question 2

s.1(2) LPA 1925

Answer 2

Interests or charges capable of being legal

Question 3

s.1(3) LPA 1925

Answer 3

Anything that is not a legal interest or estate is equitable

Question 4

s.52(1) LPA 1925

Answer 4

Conveyances to be created by a deed

Question 5

s.54(2) LPA 1925

Answer 5

Parole lease

Question 6

s.53(1)(a) LPA 1925

Answer 6

Formalities for equitable interest - in signed writing by person granting easement or authorised agent

Question 7

s.2 LPA 1925

Answer 7

Overreaching

Question 8

s.27 LPA 1925

Answer 8

Overreaching

Question 9

s.1(3) LP(MP)A 1989

Answer 9

Signed, witnessed and delivered as a deed

Question 10

s.2 LP(MP)A 1989

Answer 10

Estate contract to be made by signed writing, incorporating all expressly agreed terms and signed by each party

Question 11

s.2 LCA 1972

Answer 11

Register of land charges

Question 12

s.2(4) LCA 1972

Answer 12

Class C land charges (puisne mortgage; limited owner’s charge; general equitable charge; estate contract)

Question 13

s.2(5) LCA 1972

Answer 13

Class D land charges (Inland Revenue; restrictive covenant; equitable easement)

Question 14

s.2(7) LCA 1972

Answer 14

Class F land charge (FLA right)

Question 15

s.3 LCA 1972

Answer 15

Land charge to be registered against owners name

Question 16

s.4 LCA 1972

Answer 16

Lang charge must be resisted before date of completion of sale

Question 17

s.27 LRA 2002

Answer 17

Registrable dispositions

Question 18

s.29 LRA 2002

Answer 18

A registrable disposition needs to be registered by date of registration of the transfer to the purchaser

Question 19

s.32 LRA 2002

Answer 19

Notice (for equitable interests in registered system)

Question 20

Sch 3 LRA 2002

Answer 20

Unregistered interests which override registered dispositions

Question 21

Sch 3 Para 1 LRA 2002

Answer 21

Leasehold estate in land not exceeding 7 years is an overriding interest

Question 22

Sch 3 Para 2 LRA 2002

Answer 22

Interests of persons in actual occupation is an overriding interest

Question 23

Sch 3 Para 3 LRA 2002

Answer 23

An implied/prescribed easement is an overriding interest

Question 24

s.33 LRA 2002

Answer 24

A trust interest cannot be protected by a notice

Question 25

s.40 LRA 2002

Answer 25

A trust interest can be recorded as a restriction in the Proprietorship Register at the Land Registry by date of registration of buyer

Question 26

s.30 FLA 1996

Answer 26

The right to occupy a family home; where spouse/civil partner has a statutory right to occupy matrimonial home