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Part I General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers
2. Conveyances overreaching certain equitable interests and powers.
3. Manner of giving effect to equitable interests and powers.
5. Satisfied terms, whether created out of freehold or leasehold land to cease.
9. Vesting orders and dispositions of legal estates operating as conveyances by an estate owner.
11. Registration in Middlesex and Yorkshire as respects legal estates.
27. Purchaser not to be concerned with the trusts of the proceeds of sale which are to be paid to two or more trustees or to a trust corporation.
28. Powers of management, &c. conferred on trustees for sale.
29. Delegation of powers of management by trustees for sale.
30. Powers of court where trustees for sale refuse to exercise powers.
31. Trust of mortgaged property where right of redemption is barred.
Part II Contracts, Conveyances and other Instruments
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47. Application of insurance money on completion of a sale or exchange.
48. Stipulations preventing a purchaser, lessee, or underlessee from employing his own solicitor to be void.
50. Discharge of incumbrances by the court on sales or exchanges.
Conveyances and other Instruments
56. Persons taking who are not parties and as to indentures.
60. Abolition of technicalities in regard to conveyances and deeds.
61. Construction of expressions used in deeds and other instruments.
69. Receipt in deed or indorsed authority for payment to solicitor.
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74. Execution of instruments by or on behalf of corporations.
Part III Mortgages, Rentcharges, and Powers of Attorney
91.Sale of mortgaged property in action for redemption or foreclosure.
92.Power to authorise land and minerals to be dealt with separately.
95.Obligation to transfer instead of re-conveying, and as to right to take possession.
96.Regulations respecting inspection, production and delivery of documents, and priorities.
100.Powers of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession to accept surrenders of leases.
109.Appointment, powers, remuneration and duties of receiver.
110.Effect of bankruptcy of the mortgagor on the power to sell or appoint a receiver.
141. Rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with the reversion.
142. Obligation of lessor’s covenants to run with reversion.
146. Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases and underleases.
149. Abolition of interesse termini, and as to reversionary leases and leases for lives.
150. Surrender of a lease, without prejudice to underleases with a view to the grant of a new lease.
152. Leases invalidated by reason of non-compliance with terms of powers under which they are granted.
153. Enlargement of residue of long terms into fee simple estates.
Part VII Perpetuities and Accumulations
175. Contingent and future testamentary gifts to carry the intermediate income.
176. Power for tenant in tail in possession to dispose of property by specific devise or bequest.
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Law of Property Act 1925
Part I Conversion of certain existing Legal Estates into Equitable Interests
Part III Provisions as to Legal Estate vested in Infant
1.Where immediately before the commencement of this Act a legal...
2.Where immediately before the commencement of this Act a legal...
3.Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a legal...
3A.The county court has jurisdiction under proviso (iii) to paragraph...
4.Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a legal...
Part IV Provisions subjecting Land held in Undivided Shares to a Trust for Sale
Part VI Conversion of Tenancies by entireties into Joint Tenancies
Part VII Conversion of existing Freehold Mortgages into Mortgages by Demise
1.All land, which immediately before the commencement of this Act,...
2.All land, which immediately before the commencement of this Act,...
3.The estate in fee simple which, immediately before the commencement...
5.This Part of this Schedule applies to land enfranchised by...
6.A mortgage affecting a legal estate made before the commencement...
7.Nothing in this Part of this Schedule shall affect priorities...
Part VIII Conversion of existing Leasehold Mortgages into Mortgages by subdemise
1.All leasehold land, which immediately before the commencement of this...
2.All leasehold land, which immediately before the commencement of this...
4.If a sub-mortgage by assignment of a term is subsisting...
5.A mortgage affecting a legal estate made before the commencement...
6.This Part of this Schedule applies to perpetually renewable leaseholds,...
7.This Part of this Schedule applies (save where expressly excepted)...
8.Nothing in this Part of this Schedule shall affect priorities...
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