Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Property Law Act 1958 - SECT 62

General words implied in conveyances20

62. General words implied in conveyances20



(1) A conveyance of land shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of
this Act operate to convey, with the land, all buildings, erections, fixtures,
commons, hedges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties,
privileges, easements, rights and advantages whatsoever, appertaining or
reputed to appertain to the land, or any part thereof, or, at the time of
conveyance, demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or
parcel of or appurtenant to the land or any part thereof.

(2) A conveyance of land, having houses or other buildings thereon, shall be
deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Act operate to convey, with the
land, houses or other buildings, all outhouses, erections, fixtures, cellars,
areas, courts, courtyards, cisterns, sewers, gutters, drains, ways, passages,
lights, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights and advantages
whatsoever, appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land, houses or other
buildings conveyed, or any of them, or any part thereof, or, at the time of
conveyance, demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or
parcel of or appurtenant to, the land, houses or other buildings conveyed, or
any of them, or any part thereof.

(3) This section shall apply only if and as far as a contrary intention is not
expressed in the conveyance, and shall have effect subject to the terms of the
conveyance and to the provisions therein contained.

(4) This section shall not be construed as giving to any person a better title
to any property, right or thing in this section mentioned than the title which
the conveyance gives to him to the land expressed to be conveyed, or as
conveying to him any property, right or thing in this section mentioned,
further or otherwise than as the same could have been conveyed to him by the
conveying parties.

(5) This section shall apply to conveyances made after the thirty-first day of
January One thousand nine hundred and five.