Real Property Act 1845

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.

Real Property Act 1845
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to amend the Law of Real property.
Citation8 & 9 Vict. c. 106
Dates
Royal assent4 August 1845
Text of statute as originally enacted

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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

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Conveyance of Real Property Act 1845
Act of Parliament
 
Long titleAn Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Real Property.
Citation8 & 9 Vict. c. 119
Dates
Royal assent8 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Text of statute as originally enacted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]

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Now the Law of Property Act 1925, s 56
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.