Law Of Property

Cap. 190 · Revised Edition 2020 · 153 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Legal estates and equitable interests
s. 4Concurrent legal estates
s. 5Power of appointment generally to operate in equity only
s. 6Conveyance to uses operates as conveyance upon trusts, and abolition of Statute of Uses
s. 7Manner of giving effect to equitable interests and powers
s. 8Effecting agreement for mortgage, charge or lien
s. 9Obligation to convey legal estate
s. 10Creation and disposition of equitable interests
s. 11All rights in land disposable
s. 12Rights of entry
s. 13Satisfied terms, whether created out of freehold or leasehold land to cease
s. 14Saving of lessor’s and lessee’s covenants
s. 15Title to legal estate
s. 16Evidence of title to a term
s. 17Effect of transfer to infant
s. 18Transfer of trust to infant
s. 19Appointment of infant as trustee void
s. 20Power of married infant to give receipts
s. 21Grant or assignment of mortgage to infant
s. 22Disposal of infant’s property subject to consent of the court
s. 23Legal estate in land vested in a person of unsound mind or defective
s. 24Land held in trust for sale vested in a person of unsound mind or defective
s. 25Duration of trusts for sale
s. 26Power to postpone sale
s. 27Consents to the execution of a trust for sale
s. 28Trustees for sale required to consult beneficiaries of full age
s. 29Purchaser not to be concerned with the trusts of the proceeds of sale which are to be paid to two or more trustees
s. 30Powers of management, etc., conferred on trustees for sale
s. 31Application of net rents and profits pending sale
s. 32Delegation of powers of management by trustees for sale
s. 33Powers of court where trustees for sale refuse to exercise powers
s. 34Implied trust for sale in personality settlements
s. 35Application of Parts II, III and IV to personal representatives, subject to administration needs
s. 36Effect of future dispositions to tenants in common
s. 37Meaning of statutory trusts
s. 38Joint tenancies
s. 39Rights of husband and wife
s. 40Title to land
s. 41Title to legal estates and interests created by certificates of absolute and indefeasible title
s. 42Acquisition of title by long possession
s. 43Instruments required to be in writing
s. 44Creation of interests in land by parol
s. 45Savings in regard to sections 43 and 44
s. 46Persons taking who are not parties
s. 47General words implied to transfers
s. 48All estates clause implied
s. 49Transfers by a person to himself, etc
s. 50A deed need not be indented
s. 51Receipt in deed sufficient
s. 52Receipt in deed or indorsed
s. 53Execution of deeds by an individual
s. 54Execution of instruments by or on behalf of corporations
s. 55Contracts for sale, etc., of land to be in writing
s. 56Intended lessee cannot demand title of intended lessor
s. 57Application of insurance money on completion of a sale or exchange
s. 58Stipulations preventing a purchaser, lessee or under-lessee from employing his own solicitor to be void
s. 59Applications to the court by vendor and purchaser
s. 60Discharge of legal charges or encumbrances by the court on sales or exchanges
s. 61Benefit of covenants relating to land
s. 62Burden of covenants relating to land
s. 63Covenants binding land
s. 64Legal charges created by deed
s. 65Power to create mortgage
s. 66Priority of second and other mortgages
s. 67Mode of protecting mortgage security
s. 68Rights incident to interest of mortgagee
s. 69Mortgagee’s power of sale without order of court
s. 70Implied covenants by mortgagor
s. 71Implied covenants, joint and several
s. 72Leasing powers of mortgagor
s. 73Obligation to transfer mortgage
s. 74Priorities as between puisne mortgages
s. 75Restriction on consolidation of mortgages
s. 76Mortgagee’s receipts, discharges, etc
s. 77Amount and application of insurance money
s. 78Effect of advance on joint account
s. 79Notice of trusts affecting mortgage debts
s. 80Assignment of mortgagee
s. 81Form of discharging statutory mortgage or charge
s. 82Regulation of exercise of power of sale
s. 83Power of court to grant relief on application for order for sale
s. 84Realisation of freehold mortgages
s. 85Realisation of leasehold mortgages
s. 86Procedure relating to mortgages and the realisation of the security
s. 87Powers to authorise land and minerals to be dealt with separately
s. 88Priority of payment of claims out of proceeds of sale
s. 89Transfer after sale
s. 90Right to exercise power of sale
s. 91Remedies for the recovery of annual sums charged on land
s. 92Rent charge on leased land
s. 93Partial release of security from rent charge
s. 94Deed charging crops
s. 95Charge on crops not prejudiced by subsequent transaction
s. 96Power of entry on land
s. 97Right of chargee to reap and sell crops
s. 98Mode of realising mortgages applied to charge on crops
s. 99Expiration of charge on crops
s. 100Public notice of charge on crops
s. 101Penalty for fraudulent disposition of crops charged
s. 102Land tax not to be registered
s. 103Definition of encumbrances
s. 104Mode of constituting encumbrances over unregistered land
s. 105Time from which encumbrances binding
s. 106Encumbrances to rank by date
s. 107Clearing of encumbrances on seizure and sale of land
s. 108Valuation of encumbrance
s. 109Extent of encumbrance
s. 110Leases for three years and upwards to be encumbrances
s. 111Release of part of land affected from a judgment
s. 112Sale for breach of conditions of encumbrance
s. 113Rights of encumbrancees to be preserved, unless they consent to unreserved sale
s. 114Conveyance of sale by order of court
s. 115Appointment of a receiver in certain cases
s. 116Right of person giving the legal charge or encumbrance to pay off debt before sale
s. 117Effect of seizure on leases and rents
s. 118Equitable mortgage constituted by deposit of certificate of title
s. 119Equitable mortgage may be for a definite sum, or to cover advances made
s. 120Registration or recording of equitable mortgage
s. 121Conversion of an equitable mortgage into a mortgage
s. 122Realisation of equitable charges
s. 123Execution under power of attorney
s. 124Payment by attorney under power without notice of death, etc
s. 125Recording of instrument conferring power to dispose of land
s. 126Irrevocability of power expressed to be irrevocable
s. 127Effect of power of attorney irrevocable for a fixed time
s. 128Devolution of power of attorney given to a purchaser
s. 129Creation of entailed interests in real and personal property
s. 130Abolition of the Rule in Shelley’s case
s. 131Restriction on executory limitations
s. 132Equitable waste
s. 133Legal assignments of things in action
s. 134Dealings with life interests, reversions and other equitable interests
s. 135Persons to be served with notice of dealing with settled land, etc
s. 136Notice not to affect priority of claims
s. 137Release of powers simply collateral
s. 138Disclaimer of power
s. 139Protection of purchaser claiming under certain appointments
s. 140Validation of appointments where objects are excluded or take illusory shares
s. 141Execution of powers not testamentary
s. 142Application of Part V to existing powers
s. 143Abolition of the double possibility rule
s. 144Restrictions on the perpetuity rule
s. 145Validation of certain gifts void for remoteness
s. 146General restrictions on accumulation of income
s. 147Qualification of restrictions on accumulation
s. 148Restriction on accumulation for the purchase of land
s. 149Voluntary transfer to defraud creditors voidable
s. 150Voluntary disposition of land how far voidable as against purchasers
s. 151Acquisitions of reversions at an under value
s. 152Power of Chief Justice to make rules
s. 153Extension of Settled Land