The conveyancing of land

This chapter considers the practical application of land law and the process of buying and selling land. It helps to understand the outline of a conveyancing transaction and the distinction between the registered and unregistered land systems; and to apply the above to the case studies and learning tasks. In order to investigate title for registered land, the solicitor must examine the office copy entries. The buyers&s; solicitor will carry out an investigation of title on behalf of the buyers. The purpose of conveying property is for the legal title to be transferred from the sellers to the buyers in exchange for an agreed sum of money. The Property Register will confirm whether the estate is leasehold and if the latter will include basic details of the lease, for example the parties, the date it was created and the term agreed. The proprietorship register will advise what classification of title has been allocated by the Land Registry to the estate.