Tacking. Before 1926 the law was that, 'if a third mortgagee buys in the first mortgage, though it be pendente lite, pending a bill brought by the second mortgagee to redeem the first, yet the third mortgagee having obtained the first mortgage and got the law on his side, and equal equity, he shall thereby squeeze out the second mortgagee', Brace v. Duchess of Marlborough, (1728) 2 P Wms 491, per Jekyll, M.R. This process was called 'tacking.' But the third mortgagee could not tack unless he made his original advance without notice of the mesne incumbrance: see Marsh v. Lee, (1669) 2 Vent 337; 1 Ch Cas 162; 1 W&TLC. The tacking mortgagee gained this right by virtue of his legal title under the first mortgage, and by the operation of the rule that where the equities (as those under the second and third mortgage) are equal the law shall prevail. 'Tacking' must not be confounded with 'consolida-tion' of mortgages. See that title.
By the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874, s. 7, tacking was abolished, but that section was in the next session repealed by the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1875, s. 129. Tacking has been abolished by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 94, except in the case of further advances made by a prior mort-gagee. See MORTGAGE; FURTHER ADVANCE.
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