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CONVEYANCING AND LAW OF PROPERTY ACT 1884

- Act 19 of 1884 - Royal Assent 29 October 1883

Table of Provisions

Long Title

PART I - Preliminary

  • 1 Short title and commencement
  • 2 Interpretation

PART II - Sales and Other Transactions

  • 3 Conditions applicable to all contracts of sale of lands
  • 4 Provision by Court for incumbrances and giving effect to sale freed
  • therefrom
  • 5 Constructive notice: Restriction on
  • 6 What is included in a conveyance of land
  • 7 Covenants for title implied in certain cases
  • 8 Rights of purchaser regarding execution
  • 9 Acknowledgment of right to production: Undertaking for safe custody
  • of documents
  • 9A Revival of easements, &c., on disunity of seisin

PART III - Leases

  • 10 Rent and benefit of lessee's covenants run with reversion
  • 11 Obligation of lessor's covenants runs with reversion
  • 11A Provisions as to attornments by tenants
  • 12 Apportionment of conditions on severance, &c., of reversion
  • 13 Section 13
  • 14 Section 14
  • 15 Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases
  • 16 Effect of licences

PART IV - Mortgages

  • 17 Obligation on mortgagee to transfer instead of reconveying
  • 18 Power of mortgagor to inspect title deeds
  • 19 Leasing power of mortgagor and mortgagee in possession
  • 20 Further leasing powers; Limitation of term
  • 21 Powers incident to estate or interest of mortgagee
  • 22 Regulation of exercise of mortgagee's power of sale
  • 23 Obligations and rights in respect of conveyance on sale by mortgagee
  • 24 Mortgagee's receipts, discharges, &c.
  • 25 Insurance money: Amount and application of
  • 26 Receivers
  • 27 Sale of mortgaged property in action for foreclosure, &c.

PART V - Statutory Mortgage

  • 28 Form of mortgage
  • 29 Forms of transfer of mortgage
  • 30 Implied covenants, joint and several
  • 31 Form of reconveyance of mortgage
  • 31A Discharge of mortgages by endorsements

PART VI - Satisfied Terms: Trust estates

  • 32 Satisfied terms, whether out of freehold or leasehold, to cease
  • 33 Protection of trustee, &c.
  • 34 Devolution of trusts and powers

PART VIA - Easements Division 1 - Easements generally

  • 34A Short descriptions of easements
  • 34B Party walls
  • 34C Implication of regrant

Division 2 - Parking easements

  • 34D Interpretation
  • 34E Nature of parking easement
  • 34F Creation of parking easement
  • 34G Dominant and servient tenements
  • 34H Conditions of parking easement
  • 34I Parking easement to run with land
  • 34J Variation of parking easement
  • 34K Termination of parking easement
  • 34L Registration

PART VII - Title: Sale and Purchase

  • 35 Commencement of title
  • 35A Saving for certain restrictive covenants
  • 36 Contracts for sale, &c., of land to be in writing
  • 37 Obligations and rights of vendor and purchaser
  • 38 Tacking and further advances
  • 39 Right of vendor or purchaser to obtain decision of judge as to
  • requisitions, objections, or compensation, &c.
  • 40 Voluntary conveyances to defraud creditors voidable
  • 41 Voluntary disposition of land: How far voidable as against purchasers
  • 42 Acquisitions of reversions at under value

PART VIII - Married Women

  • 43 Power of Court to bind interest of married woman
  • 44 Power of attorney of married woman
  • 45 Restraint on anticipation abolished

PART IX - Infants

  • 46 Management of land and receipt and application of income during
  • minority
  • 47 Application by trustees of income of property of infant for
  • maintenance, &c.
  • 48 Power of guardians of minors to surrender and renew leases by order
  • of Court
  • 49 Infants empowered to grant renewals of leases
  • 50 Power of Court to authorize lease when for benefit of estate
  • 51 When persons to renew are out of the jurisdiction
  • 52 Fines to be paid before renewal executed
  • 53 Application of premiums
  • 54 Power of Court to order dividends to be applied for maintenance,
  • &c.
  • 55 Power of Court to direct that costs be paid from lands or from
  • dividends, &c.

PART X - Rent-Charges and Other Annual Sums: Judgments

  • 56 Remedies for recovery of annual sums charged on land
  • 57 Release of part of land not an extinguishment of whole rent-charge
  • 58 Release of part of land not to affect judgment as to residue

PART XI - Construction and Effect of Deeds and Other Instruments

Division 1 - Deeds and other instruments, including conveyances of

chambers
  • 59 Land and interests therein lie in grant only
  • 60 Conveyances to be by deed
  • 61 Conditions and covenants: In what cases not implied, &c.
  • 62 Conveyance by person to himself: Bodies corporate, joint tenancies
  • 63 Execution and attestation of deeds
  • 63A Section 63A
  • 64 Construction of "month", "person", and the singular and the masculine
  • in deeds and other instruments
  • 65 Words of limitation in tail
  • 66 Construction of supplemental or annexed deed
  • 67 Receipt in deed sufficient
  • 68 Receipt in deed or endorsed, evidence for subsequent purchaser
  • 69 Receipt in deed or endorsed, authority for payment to Australian
  • legal practitioner
  • 70 Form of deeds in Schedule 2: Sufficiency of
  • 71 Benefit of covenant relating to land
  • 71A Burden of covenants relating to land
  • 71B Fencing provisions
  • 72 Effect of covenant with two or more jointly
  • 73 Effect of advance expressed to be on joint account, &c.
  • 74 Grants of easements by way of use
  • 75 Conveyances to pass all the estate, &c.
  • 75A Conveyance of chambers, flats, &c.
  • 75B Destruction of upper chambers
  • 75C Repair and rebuilding of severally-owned buildings
  • 75CA Irregular boundary with highway

Division 2 - Plans for vesting fee simple in buildings erected over

or partly over rivulets vested in Hobart City Council
  • 75CB Interpretation
  • 75CC Application of Division
  • 75CD Vesting by plans of buildings over or partly over rivulets
  • 75CE Lodging and registration of plans
  • 75CF Provisions consequential on registration of plans
  • 75CG Amendment of building title plans
  • 75CH Effect of folio of Register
  • 75CI Regulations

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  • 75D Section 75D
  • 75E Section 75E
  • 75F Section 75F
  • 75G Section 75G
  • 75H Section 75H
  • 75J Section 75J
  • 75K Section 75K
  • 75L Section 75L
  • 75M Section 75M
  • 75N Section 75N
  • 75NA Section 75NA
  • 75P Section 75P
  • 75PA Section 75PA
  • 75Q Section 75Q
  • 75R Section 75R
  • 75S Section 75S
  • 75T Section 75T
  • 75U Section 75U
  • 75V Section 75V
  • 75W Section 75W
  • 75X Section 75X
  • 75Y Section 75Y
  • 75Z Section 75Z
  • 75ZA Section 75ZA
  • 75ZB Section 75ZB
  • 75ZBA Section 75ZBA
  • 75ZC Section 75ZC

PART XII - Powers

  • 76 Release of, or contract not to exercise, powers
  • 77 Disclaimer of power
  • 78 Mode of execution of power

PART XIII - Executory Limitations: Contingent Interests: Reversions

  • 79 Executory limitations: Restriction of
  • 80 Contingent and certain other interests made alienable by deed:
  • Protection against failure of reversion
  • 81 Cases in which contingent remainders capable of taking effect as if
  • originally springing or shifting uses, &c.
  • 82 When reversion on lease fails next estate to become reversion

PART XIV - Long Terms

  • 83 Enlargement of residue of long term into fee simple

PART XV - Adoption of Act

  • 84 Protection of Australian legal practitioner and trustees adopting this
  • Act

PART XVA - Determination and Variation of Certain Interests Affecting

the User of Land
  • 84A Interpretation of Part XVA
  • 84B Determination of existence, &c., of overriding interests
  • 84C Discharge or modification of overriding interests
  • 84D Vesting of blocks subject to rights of way
  • 84E Applications for orders
  • 84F Determination of applications by Recorder
  • 84G Determination of applications by Supreme Court
  • 84H Supplementary provisions as to applications for orders
  • 84J Statutory rights of user
  • 84K Registration of orders

PART XVB - Partition of Chattels

  • 84L Power of Court to order partition, &c., of chattels

PART XVI - Miscellaneous

  • 85 Regulations respecting notice
  • 86 Legal assignments of things in action
  • 87 Fraudulent concealment and falsification actionable
  • 88 Application of certain provisions of Inheritance Act 1833
  • 89 Dower and tenancy by curtesy
  • 90 Covenants to be implied by use of certain forms of words
  • 90A Easements in gross and easements and restrictions appurtenant to
  • easements
  • 90AB Covenants in gross
  • 90B Subdivision of land
  • 90C Subdivision of building
  • 90D Section 90D
  • 90DA Determination or variation of leases, incumbrances, &c.
  • 90E Insurance money from burnt building may be laid out on rebuilding
  • 91 Application of certain provisions of this Act to land under the
  • Land Titles Act 1980
  • 91A Right of remainderman or reversioner to take action for possession
  • in certain circumstances
  • 91B Regulations
  • 91C Prescribed fees
  • 91D Validation

PART XVII - Court: Procedure: Orders

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