Charity Cut Price Sale.

[Hairyloon]

That is the basis of much of the Law of Property Act 1925 and the Land Registration Acts.

Would you have a better pointer please? Much of that first one seems to be repealed.

[atticus]

Were you referred to more than one statute?

[Hairyloon]

Were you referred to more than one statute?

The "Land Registration Acts"?
Sorry, I have a headache.

[atticus]

1925 and 2002, and no doubt others.

[Hairyloon]

I was reply ing to your point about land being "irrevocably" sold. Any remaining trust attaches to the proceeds of sale...

Sorry, my question was not clear.
If the change to the proprietor entry in the registered title was made in error without any proper legal basis, then the property was not theirs to sell: if it was a chattel rather than property this would be conversion and the proper owner would be able to reclaim it.
Are the rules different because it is property?
Is it different because we are talking about proprietors not owners?

[atticus]

That is why there are Acts of Parliament relating to the Sale of Goods and others relating to the Law of Property.

[theycantdothat]

I was reply ing to your point about land being "irrevocably" sold. Any remaining trust attaches to the proceeds of sale...

Sorry, my question was not clear.
If the change to the proprietor entry in the registered title was made in error without any proper legal basis, then the property was not theirs to sell: if it was a chattel rather than property this would be conversion and the proper owner would be able to reclaim it.
Are the rules different because it is property?
Is it different because we are talking about proprietors not owners?

It is not so much a question of "ownership" but of title. If you are the registered proprietor of land then de facto you have title even if you are registered in error. Absent any collusion, a purchaser is entitled to rely on the register; the "true" owner is left with a claim against the proprietor and/or Land Registry.

Going back to the conveyance, there is an argument that the words "To Hold unto the Purchasers in fee simple as a site for an Institute for the Women of x" did not create a fee simple absolute, but a conditional fee simple. Without going into technicalities, the effect of that is that on the land ceasing to be so used the Crown could claim it back. What happens if a conditional fee gets registered without the condition being noted I would not like to say.

Reading the Land Registration Act 2002 is unlikely to prove useful. Reading the Land Registration Act 1925 will definitely not prove useful as it has been repealed.

[Hairyloon]

It is not so much a question of "ownership" but of title. If you are the registered proprietor of land then de facto you have title even if you are registered in error.

Thank you, except that is not quite right: in this case the proprietor does not have the title, it rests with the Official Custodian.

Absent any collusion, a purchaser is entitled to rely on the register; the "true" owner is left with a claim against the proprietor and/or Land Registry.

The party at fault here would be the Charity Commission.
To what value could that claim be?
Isn't the general principle that damages should set things straight? i.e pay for a replacement to what was lost (and costs, etc).

Going back to the conveyance, there is an argument that the words "To Hold unto the Purchasers in fee simple as a site for an Institute for the Women of x" did not create a fee simple absolute, but a conditional fee simple. Without going into technicalities, the effect of that is that on the land ceasing to be so used the Crown could claim it back. What happens if a conditional fee gets registered without the condition being noted I would not like to say.

Unless the Crown want to take it back, almost certainly nothing.

Reading the Land Registration Act 2002 is unlikely to prove useful.

I found nothing helpful, but I would not claim to have read it thoroughly.

Reading the Land Registration Act 1925 will definitely not prove useful as it has been repealed.

They do at least hint to that in the title.