Land Law Essay - Final Module Summative Essay For Bangor University
“Overriding interests... present a very significant impediment to one of the main objectives of the
[Land Registration] Bill, namely that the register should be as complete a record of the title as it can
be, with the result that it should be possible for title to land to be investigated almost entirely on-
line.”
Law Commission Report No. 271, [2.24]
Critically evaluate whether you consider ‘overriding interests’ should be abolished.
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Overriding interests are nothing new and existed under the LRA 1925
The operation of overriding interest might be seen as deeply unfair to purchasers who, without en-
quiries and inspections of the land, may know nothing of the existence of these rights yet be bound
by them, bevan page 87.
Overriding interest were first addressed in section 70 of the land registration act 1925
‘Well recognised burdens’ - Ruoff - T . B.F.Ruoff, The Torrens System (1957),p. 8
‘'reflect accurately and completely and beyond all argument the current facts that are material to a
man's title’
- Theodore Ruoff, An Englishman looks at the Torrens System (Law Book Company of Australasia,
1957) 9.
‘the great controversy lies in the uncertainty within land registration due to the "Mirror principle "in
its persistence for certainty in the process of the transference of property. - David S Cowan, The
New Law Journal, 1992 Volume 142, Issue 6561, July, Articles, The future for Land Law – 142
NLJ 101.
‘rationalise and introduce the reduction and scope of overriding interest’- Mark Davys, Land Law, 9
edition, Palgrave Law Masters, 2015, p.262.
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Whilst OI were preserved under the LRA 2002 - new scheme employed a series of stratagies to re-
strict the impact of these interests
Despite these measures the category of unregistered interests that override survives and as a result
continues to seriously undermine the registered land project and the mirror principle in particular-
bevan page 88
The retention of these interests creates a ‘Deep crack in the mirror principle’ - D. Hayton, registered
land, third edition (London: sweet and Maxwell, 1981), 76
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ACTUAL OCCUPATION
“Overriding interests... present a very significant impediment to one of the main objectives of the
[Land Registration] Bill, namely that the register should be as complete a record of the title as it can
be, with the result that it should be possible for title to land to be investigated almost entirely on-
line.”
Law Commission Report No. 271, [2.24]
Critically evaluate whether you consider ‘overriding interests’ should be abolished.
————————————————————————————————————————
Overriding interests are nothing new and existed under the LRA 1925
The operation of overriding interest might be seen as deeply unfair to purchasers who, without en-
quiries and inspections of the land, may know nothing of the existence of these rights yet be bound
by them, bevan page 87.
Overriding interest were first addressed in section 70 of the land registration act 1925
‘Well recognised burdens’ - Ruoff - T . B.F.Ruoff, The Torrens System (1957),p. 8
‘'reflect accurately and completely and beyond all argument the current facts that are material to a
man's title’
- Theodore Ruoff, An Englishman looks at the Torrens System (Law Book Company of Australasia,
1957) 9.
‘the great controversy lies in the uncertainty within land registration due to the "Mirror principle "in
its persistence for certainty in the process of the transference of property. - David S Cowan, The
New Law Journal, 1992 Volume 142, Issue 6561, July, Articles, The future for Land Law – 142
NLJ 101.
‘rationalise and introduce the reduction and scope of overriding interest’- Mark Davys, Land Law, 9
edition, Palgrave Law Masters, 2015, p.262.
———————————————
Whilst OI were preserved under the LRA 2002 - new scheme employed a series of stratagies to re-
strict the impact of these interests
Despite these measures the category of unregistered interests that override survives and as a result
continues to seriously undermine the registered land project and the mirror principle in particular-
bevan page 88
The retention of these interests creates a ‘Deep crack in the mirror principle’ - D. Hayton, registered
land, third edition (London: sweet and Maxwell, 1981), 76
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ACTUAL OCCUPATION
