Part 2First registration of title

Chapter 1First registration

Compulsory registration

8 Liability for making good void transfers etc

If a legal estate is retransferred, regranted or recreated because of a failure to comply with the requirement of registration, the transferee, grantee or, as the case may be, the mortgagor—

a

is liable to the other party for all the proper costs of and incidental to the retransfer, regrant or recreation of the legal estate, and

b

is liable to indemnify the other party in respect of any other liability reasonably incurred by him because of the failure to comply with the requirement of registration.