ABSTRACT
Co-ownership imports that two or more people own the same estate concurrently. The principles of law to be applied to co-ownership are found in the LPA. The rules can appear quite complex, but they were even more complex before 1926. The aim of the 1925 legislation was, as always, to simplify the rules so as to simplify the task of the purchaser’s solicitor. The particular mischief in the case of co-ownership was that the purchase of coowned land might involve many different vendors with many different titles. The LPA ensures that today, save in exceptional cases, the purchaser will have to investigate just one title held by not more than four vendors.
