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Part I E+W General Principles as to Legal Estates, Equitable Interests and Powers

9 Vesting orders and dispositions of legal estates operating as conveyances by an estate owner.E+W

(1)Every such order, declaration, or conveyance as is hereinafter mentioned, namely—

(a)every vesting order made by any court or other competent authority;

(b)every vesting declaration (express or implied) under any statutory power;

(c)every vesting instrument made by the trustees of a settlement or other persons under the provisions of the M1Settled Land Act, 1925;

(d)every conveyance by a person appointed for the purpose under an order of the court or authorised under any statutory power to convey in the name or on behalf of an estate owner;

(e)every conveyance made under any power reserved or conferred by this Act,

which is made or executed for the purpose of vesting, conveying, or creating a legal estate, shall operate to convey or create the legal estate disposed of in like manner as if the same had been a conveyance executed by the estate owner of the legal estate to which the order, declaration, vesting instrument, or conveyance relates.

(2)Where the order, declaration, or conveyance is made in favour of a purchaser, the provisions of this Act relating to a conveyance of a legal estate to a purchaser shall apply thereto.

(3)The provisions of the M2Trustee Act, 1925, relating to vesting orders and orders appointing a person to convey shall apply to all vesting orders authorised to be made by this Part of this Act.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 9 extended (1.12.1991) by Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57, SIF 130) ss. 155(6), 225(2), (with ss. 16(6), 179, 222(3), Sch. 22 para. 1, Sch. 23 para. 6)

Marginal Citations