Land Registration Flashcards
Three Registers in the Land Registration Act 1925
Property, Proprietorship, Charges
Principles of Land Registration System
Mirror, Curtain and Insurance
s3 LRA 2002
Voluntary registration of title: freehold and leasehold estates with over 7 years left to run or which are discontinuous
s4 LRA 2002
Compulsory registration of title: transfers of unregistered freehold estates and leasehold estates with more than 7 years left to run, creation of first legal mortgages (charges), leases granted out of unregistered estates which are for terms of more than 7 years or which start more than 3 months into the future.
s6 LRA 2002
Duty to register within 2 months of completion
s7 LRA 2002
Consequences of failure to register - the legal title reverts.
s27(2)
Dispositions which are required to be registered.
Transfers of registered freehold or leasehold estates, grants of legal charges, creation of legal easements, leases granted out of registered estates for terms of more than 7 years or which start more than 3 months into the future or are discontinuous.
s27(1)
Legal title does not pass if failure to register
s33
Some interests are not permitted to be registered as notices - the interests of beneficiaries under trusts of land and legal leases of three years or less
s38
Certain notices are automatically entered onto the register and others are voluntarily entered.
ss40-44
Restrictions prevent the registration of further dispositions unless the conditions of the restriction are met.
Notification restriction
Beneficiaries are informed when overreaching is occuring
s42(2) and 43(1)(b) Dealings restriction
Used to prevent the registration of any dealings in the land without the restriction holders consent, but the owners consent will usually be required to allow this kind of restriction to be registered.
City permanent building society v Miller
Only legal leases are overriding not equitable.
13 October 2003
After this date legal leases granted for a term of 7 years or less are overriding interests (unless they must otherwise be registered under s4 or s27(2)). If over 7 years they should be registered and would therefore only be equitable
Schedule 3(3)
Legal easements and legal profits a prendre which do not need to be registered under 27(2)(d) are capable of being overriding interests.
Only legal easements that comply with one of the following are overriding……
Actual knowledge, would have been obvious under r. careful inspection or which would have been exercised in the past year
Interests of persons in actual occupation are overriding provided……
There is an interest, the actual occupation would have been obvious or it would not have been but the dispose has actual knowledge and the interest holder disclosed their interest if inquiry was made of them unless disclosure could not reasonably have been expected in the circumstances.
Strand Securities v Caswell
Rights such as a license do not constitute an overriding interest. Occasional presence is not suffice. (Tenant let his step daughter live in the flat free of rent therefore no proprietary interest)
Williams & Glyns Bank v Boland
“Sufficient Physical Presence”
Lloyds Bank v Rosset
Contributing to the running of a house does not provide an interest, residents actually living there do not need to prove actual occupation
Malory Enterprises v Cheshire Homes
Whenever there is an error in the register, although the legal title may be transferred, the owner of legal title holds it on trust for the true owner. There must be some degree of permanence and continuity
Thomas v Clydesdale Bank plc
Look at intention and nature, Mrs had intention to return. Regular attendance can equal actual occupation.
Abbey National Building Society v Cann
Acts of moving in alone are not sufficient for Actual Occupation. Caretakers/representatives are capable of occupying on behalf
Hypo-Mortgage Services Ltd v Robinson
Minors cannot have actual occupation.
Thompson v Foy
Actual occupation must be present at the stage 4 registration and stage 5 completion in order to be binding.