Skip to content

Land Charge - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Annuity

annuity is a fixed sum payable annually either in perpetuity or for any less period. When charged upon land either freehold or leasehold both, exclusively of purely personal estate, it is strictly a rent charge; see (English)

Priority Notice

Priority Notice, of charge under (English) Land Charges Act, 1925. By the (English) Law of Property (Amendment) Act, 1926, s. 4, persons intending to register

Settled land

Matched in: Term Settled land

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

(cited together as the Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932), has consolidated and effected changes in the land laws with the object of simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition … and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the legal estate in land. Any number of these legal estates can exist in respect of the

Equitable estates and interests

Statute, being based on the elastic nature of trusts, introduced a more flexible disposition of legal interests in land. Under the (English) Statute of Frauds (29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 7) trusts creating equitable estates or … does not by law transfer or vest the legal estate or ownership in the transferee, by mortgage or charge, and whenever a trust arises, either express, constructive, implied or by operation of law. In theory the legal

Vendor's lien for unpaid purchase money

Vendor's lien for unpaid purchase money. Where a vendor of land conveys, without more, although the consideration is expressed to be paid both in the body of the deed … has been transferred or a lien has arisen since 1925, it must be registered under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10, or it will be void against a purchaser, even if he has actual notice.

Priority

in writing, Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 137; and see Dearle v. Hall. Subject to the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, the assignee of an equitable interest inland having notice will himself be bound to give … writing, Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 137; and see Dearle v. Hall. Subject to the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, the assignee of an equitable interest inland having notice will himself be bound to give effect

Apportionment

to a lease is taken under the Act. Rentcharges.--A rentcharge issues out of every part of the land charged and, as a rule, the burden is not apportionable unless the owner of the charge consents, or is … receivers, as the executors of tenants for life and remaindermen, but between receiver and payer, as between a landlord and a tenant, so that if a tenancy be determined in the middle of a quarter, the landlord

Puisne mortgage

(6) and Part III. (5), puisne mortgages not protected by a deposit of documents or registered as a land charge became mortgages of a legal estate, but as against a purchaser in good faith without notice, the mortgages … against a purchaser in good faith without notice, the mortgages are to remaina equitable interest. Registration as a land charge is not compulsory but advisable, as it amounts to notice. See NOTICE; LAND CHARGES; MORTGAGE.

Lis pendens

unless registered and re-registered as prescribed by the Act. The Judgment Act, 1839, was repealed by the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925. A pending action is defined in s. 2, (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, as any … registered and re-registered as prescribed by the Act. The Judgment Act, 1839, was repealed by the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925. A pending action is defined in s. 2, (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, as any action,

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial