Irish Land Law - Important Statutes

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Registration of Title Act 1964

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This act deals with registration of land.

Important sections :

Equity :
- Registration of title
-- Registration of Title Act 1964

Registration of Title :
1964 Act
- compulsory registration : s23-25
-- designated as a compulsory registration area
- registers : s8 (types), 31 (conclusive nature), 32 (rectification)

Maps :
- s 84-89
Co-ownership :
- s 91 Trusts :
- s92 - kept off the register
- s37(4) and s44(4) - registration as owner does not affect the duties of the trustee
Settled land :
- registration : s27
- collective vesting : s37(2), 44(2)
- entry of names of trustees : s99(1)
Classes of freehold title
- s33
- absolute : s37
- qualified : s39
- possessory : s38
Classes of leasehold title :
-s 40
- absolute : s44
- qualified : s47
- possessory : s46
- good leasehold : s45
Elevation of classification : s50
Adverse possession : s49
Transmission of registered land : s51, 52, 55, 123 (no need for words of limitation)
Registered burdnes :
- s69
- priority : s74
Overriding interests : s72
Cautions and inhibitions : s97, 98
Unregistered rights in registered land : s68

Covenants : s69(3)

Licences : s81

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Succession Act 1965

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This act deals with succession, wills, intestacy and interference with freedom of testation.

Important sections :

Co-ownership:
Joint tenancy : s4(c)

Succession :
Wills
- Succession Act 1965, part 7
- ambulatory effect : s89, 95
- predeceasing beneficiaries : s91, 97, 98
- capacity to make a will : s77
- formalities : s78
-- writting
-- signature of testator
-- witnesses : s81
-- gifts to witnesses : s82
-- alteration : s86
-- revocation : s85
-- revival : s87
- disinheritance : s121

Intestacy :
- Succession Act 1965, part 6
- s67 - spouse / issue
- s67A - civil partner / issue
- section 68 - parents
- s69 - brothers / sisters / their children
- s70 - next of kin
- s73 - state

Interference with freedom of testation :
- Succession Act 1965
- legal rights of surviving spouse : s111-116
- legal right of surviving civil partner : ss111A
- rights of appropriation : s55-57
- proper provision for children : s117
- provisions for divorced spouses : Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996, s18
- unworthiness to succeed : s120
- extinguishment of spouse's succession rights : Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996, s14

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Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006

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This act updates the Registration of Title Act 1964, but does not over rule it.

Important sections :

Equity :
- Registration of deeds
-- Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 s38

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Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009

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After years of debate, the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act, 2009 comprehensively reformed the law of conveyancing, mortgages, registration of and claims to title, rights of way and easements. Some little-used interests relating to feudal tenure, life interests, leases for lives and fee tails were formally abolished.

Important sections :

Ownership of land :
Abolition of feudal tenure : LCLRA 2009 s 9(2)

Freehold estates :
- Fee simple : LCLRA 2009 s11(2)
-- rights of the state : Succession Act 1965 s73(1); LCLRA 2009 s9(3)(a)
-- freedom of alienation : LCLRA 2009 s9(4)
--- determinable fee : LCLRA 2009 s11(2)(a)
--- conditional fee : LCLRA 2009 s11(2)(b)

- Fee farm grant : LCLRA s12

- Hybrid Interests : LCLRA 2009 s12

- Fee tail : LCLRA 2009 s13

-Life estate : LCLRA 2009, s11(6)

Leasehold estates :
- s11(1)
- Modern definition
-- LCLRA 2009 s11(3)

Equity :
Overreaching of equitable interests :
- LCLRA 2009, s21

Co-ownership :
Severance of a joint tenancy
- At common law :
-- LCLRA 2009 s30(1), (2)
- At equity :
-- LCLRA 2009 s30(4)
- cannot be severed by a judgement mortgage : LCLRA 2009 s30(3)
Determination of a joint tenancy / tenancy in common
- LCLRA 2009 s31

Incorporeal hereditaments :
- implied grant : LCLRA 2009 s40(2)
- presumed grant / prescription : LCLRA 2009 s33-38
- LCLRA 2009 s39(1)

Covenants :
Freehold covenants
- enforceability : LCLRA 2009 s49(2)
- express power of the court : LCLRA 2009 s50