Real Property Act 1845
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to amend the Law of Real property. |
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| Citation | 8 & 9 Vict. c. 106 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 4 August 1845 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amended by | Statute Law Revision Act 1875 |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Real Property Act 1845[1] (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,[2] which regulated the transfer of land by sale.
Content
[edit]Section 3 of the act stated that "a lease required by law to be in writing ... shall be void at law unless also made by deed".
Section 5 reversed a common law rule that a person could not take an immediate interest in land unless named in an indenture under seal.[3]
Section 6 stated that contingent interests were entirely alienable.
Conveyance of Real Property Act 1845
[edit]| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Real Property. |
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| Citation | 8 & 9 Vict. c. 119 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 8 August 1845 |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Act 8 & 9 Vict. c. 119, sometimes called the Conveyance of Real Property Act 1845,[4] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[5]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
- ^ For a copy of this Act, see A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Eighth and Ninth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Printed by George E Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. London. 1845. Pages 735 and 736.
- ^ Now the Law of Property Act 1925, s 56
- ^ Table A. "Tables showing the Effect of the Year's Legislation". The Public General Acts passed in the Forty-Fourth and Forty-Fifth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1881. Queen's Printing Office, East Harding Street, London. 1881. Page 440.
- ^ For a copy of this act, see A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Eighth and Ninth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Printed by George E Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. London. 1845. Pages 835 and 836.
