Land registration
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What precisely is the role of a determined boundary application and can such applications be used to resolve boundary disputes?
Land Registry plans record the general position of property boundaries. This means that lines drawn on title plans are not definitive. However, it is possible to apply to have a…
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An application to the Land Registry to show that a boundary has been determined is not a solution for a boundary dispute
In Murdoch v Amesbury [2016] UKUT 3 (TCC); [2016] PLSCS 14, the applicant’s plan was deficient because the measurements provided were not within the required tolerance
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Swift 1st Ltd v Chief Land Registrar
Land registration – Alteration of register – Rectification for mistake – Land Registration Act 2002 – Legal charge registered over property in favour of lender – Register subsequently altered by…
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A2 Dominion Homes Ltd v Prince Evans LLP
Lease – Legal charge – Unilateral notice – Priority – Defendant acting for claimant’s predecessor entering unilateral notice against freehold title to protect agreement for lease – Freeholder granting charge…
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MacLeod and others v Gold Harp Properties Ltd and others
Land registration – Alteration of register – Rectification for mistake – Land Registration Act 2002 – Freeholder of building purporting to forfeit leases of roof space for non-payment of ground…
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The Court of Appeal has done its best to untangle the rules that apply to rectification and indemnity under the LRA 2002
The effect of registration under the Land Registration Act 2002 is that title is deemed to be vested in the registered proprietor.
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Swift 1st Ltd v Chief Land Registrar
Land registration – Alteration of register – Rectification for mistake – Land Registration Act 2002 – Appellant registering legal charge over property in favour of respondent – Appellant later altering…
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The decision of a property management committee did not vary or waive the property rights conferred by a tenant’s lease
The litigation in Gyle Shopping Centre General Partners Ltd (as trustee for and General Partner of Gyle Shopping Centre Limited Partnership) v Marks and Spencer plc [2014] CSOH 122; [2014]…
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Titles registered under the Land Registration Act 2002 are not indefeasible
The Land Registration Act 2002 confers “title by registration”. Once registered, title is guaranteed. However, the legislation also contains provisions enabling the Land Registry to correct mistakes (although this must…
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MacLeod and others v Gold Harp Properties Ltd and others
Neutral Citation Number: [2014] EWCA Civ 1084Case No: B2/2013/1629IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)ON APPEAL FROM CENTRAL LONDON COUNTY COURTHH JUDGE GERALD Royal Courts of JusticeStrand, London, WC2A 2LL…
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MacLeod and others v Gold Harp Properties Ltd and others
Land registration – Alteration of register – Rectification for mistake – Schedule 4 to Land Registration Act 2002 – Freeholder of building purporting to forfeit respondent’s leases of roof space…
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Walker and another v Burton and another
Land Registration Act 2002 – Purchasers of property in village registering title to lordship of manor and to certain land as manorial waste – Registration of title to lordship closed…