Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1886
Table of Contents
Long Title
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
Part 2 SALES AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS
Contracts for sale
3 Lessee or assign not to call for title to freehold
4 Vendor or purchaser may obtain summary decision as to requisitions, etc.
5 Provision by court for incumbrance, and sale freed therefrom
General words
6 General words in conveyances of land or buildings
Covenants for title
7 Covenant for title to be implied
Execution of purchase deed
8 Right of purchaser as to execution
9 Effect of acknowledgment of right to production
Part 3 LEASES
10 Rent and benefit of lessee’s covenants to run with reversion
11 Obligation of lessor’s covenants to run with reversion
12 Apportionment of conditions on severance, etc.
13 On subdemise, title to leasehold reversion not to be required
14 Contract for lease not to form part of title to lease
15 Restriction on effect of licence
16 Restricted operation of partial licence
17 No fine to be exacted for licence to assign
Forfeiture
18 Restrictions on and relief against forfeiture of leases
18A Relief against forfeiture by action for non-payment of rent
Part 4 MORTGAGES
19 Obligation of mortgagee to transfer instead of reconveying
20 Power for mortgagor to inspect title deeds
21 Restriction on consolidation of mortgages
22 Mortgagee entitled to 3 months’ notice of payment
Leases
23 Leasing powers of mortgagor and of mortgagee in possession
Sale, insurance, receiver
24 Power incident to estate or interest of mortgagee
25 Regulation of exercise of power of sale
26 Conveyance receipt, etc., on sale
27 Mortgagee’s receipts, discharges, etc.
28 Amount and application of insurance money
29 Appointment, powers, remuneration and duties of a receiver
Action respecting mortgage
30 Sale of mortgaged property in action for foreclosure, etc.
Part 5 STATUTORY MORTGAGE
31 Form of statutory mortgage
32 Form of transfer of statutory mortgage
33 Implied covenant, joint and several
34 Form of reconveyance of statutory mortgage
Part 5A EASEMENTS
34A Power of court to create easements over land
34B Power of court to vary or extinguish easements
Part 6 DEVOLUTION OF LAND ON DEATH
35 Land to devolve on death as chattels real
Part 7 MARRIED WOMEN, ALIENS, CORPORATIONS
36 Power for court to bind interest of married women
37 Aliens entitled to acquire and hold lands in Singapore; and may sell, transfer, assign, bequeath or transmit them
38 Acts heretofore done and rights to property transmitted to be valid
39 Power for corporations to hold property as joint tenants
Part 8 MINORS
40 Sales and leases on behalf of minor owner
41 Management of land and receipt and application of income during minority
42 Application by trustees of income of minor’s property for maintenance, etc.
Part 9 RENTCHARGES
43 Release of part of land charged not to be an extinguishment
Part 10 POWERS OF ATTORNEY
44 Effect of power of attorney, for value or not, made irrevocable for fixed time
45 Execution under power of attorney
46 Payment by attorney under power without notice of death, etc., good
47 Statutory declaration by attorney
48 Deposit of power of attorney
Part 11 CONSTRUCTION AND EFFECT OF DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS
49 Use of word "grant" unnecessary
50 Conveyance by a person to himself, etc.
51 Estates tail abolished
52 Estates may be conveyed by deed though not operating under Statute of Uses
53 Conveyance to be by deed in English language
54 No conveyance to operate tortiously
55 Words of limitation unnecessary
56 Construction of supplemental or annexed deed
57 Covenant to extend to executors, etc.
58 Effect of covenant with 2 or more persons jointly
59 Effect of advance on joint account
60 Grants of easements, etc., by way of use
61 Provision for all the estate
62 Restriction on executory limitations
63 Construction of implied covenants
64 Receipt in deed or endorsed thereon authority for payment, etc.
65 Receipt in deed sufficient
65A Consideration expressed in instrument authority for payment, etc.
66 Receipt in deed or endorsed evidence for subsequent purchaser
66A Severance of tenancy in common and joint tenancy
Part 12 POWERS
67 Powers simply collateral
68 Disclaimer of powers by trustees
69 Mode of execution of power
Part 13 NOTICE
70 Restrictions on constructive notice
Part 14 ADOPTION OF ACT
71 Protection of solicitor and trustees adopting this Act
Part 15 MISCELLANEOUS
72 Service of notices
73 Moneys payable under policy of assurance not to form part of the estate of the insured
73A Co-owner liable to account
73B (Repealed)
73C Voluntary disposition of land how far voidable as against purchasers
73D Rules to regulate conveyancing transactions, etc.
73E Adjudication of certain disputes relating to conveyancing money
Part 16 PROCEDURE
74 Regulations respecting payment into court and applications
75 Orders of court not to be invalidated as against a purchaser
Legislative History
Abbreviations
Comparative Table