Real property and conveyancing
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Day and another v Day
Real property and conveyancing Rectification
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Day and another v Day
Property – Conveyance – Rectification — Settlor mother granting general power of attorney to solicitor – Solicitor executing conveyance of property on behalf of settlor – Conveyance erroneously describing settlor…
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Davisons Solicitors (a firm) v Nationwide Building Society
Sale of land – Obligations of solicitor – Breach of trust – Release of mortgage funds – Solicitor acting for lender and borrower on transaction involving mortgage loan to fund…
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R (on the application of Bizzy B Management Ltd) v Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
Property – Building control – Demolition order – Appellant purchasing dilapidated building – Respondent local authority serving notice requiring repair or demolition – Appellant failing to produce refurbishment proposal –…
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Souglides v Tweedie and another
Perpetuities – option to extend lease – Validity – Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 – option to extend underlease not becoming exercisable until future date falling outside 21-year perpetuity period…
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The Mortgage Business plc v Cook and three similar cases
Sale of land – Equity release scheme – Mortgage – Land Registration Act 2002 – Sales of residential properties with promise by purchaser that vendors entitled to remain in their…
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Quigley v Masterson
Joint ownership – Joint tenancy – Severance – Law of Property Act 1925 – Separated couple owning house as joint tenants – One co-owner suffering from dementia and moving to…
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Clark v Lucas Solicitors LLP
Sale of land — Solicitor’s undertakings — Release of charge — Sale of one plot on development site — Entire site subject to all-moneys charges securing indebtedness of vendor —…
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Herbert v Doyle and another
Title to land — Constructive trust — Certainty — Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 — Property owner proposing to carry out redevelopment that would encroach on neighbours’ parking…
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Multi-Link Leisure Developments Ltd v North Lanarkshire Council
Option to purchase — Valuation — Construction of clause — Lease of land for development of golf course — Lease containing option for lessee to purchase land — Lessee seeking…
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Weir v Area Estates Ltd
Sale of land — Contract — Rescission Land Registration Act 2002 — Sale of registered freehold land on full title basis under general condition 4.3(a) — Special condition requiring purchaser…
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McGahon and another v Crest Nicholson Regeneration Ltd
Sale of land — Contract — Rescission — Purchaser contracting to buy off-plan underlease of property — Contract conditional on vendor obtaining headlease by specified date — Vendor failing to…