Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 78), as amended by the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1875, was repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925. It provided (inter alia) that in the completion of any contract of sale of land, made after the 31st December, 1874, and subject to any stipulation to the contrary in the contract, forty years was to be substituted for sixty years as the period of commencement of title which a purchaser may require, saving those cases in which an earlier title than sixty years might formerly have been required (s. 1); replaced with the substitution of thirty yeas for forty by s. 44 (1), (English) L.P. Act, 1925. See ABSTRACT.
The Act also provided that documents twenty years old should be prima facie proof of facts stated in them (s. 2). This has been replaced by s. 45 (6), (English) L.P. Act, 1925.
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