ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how rights and interests over registered land are identified and bind purchasers, including: entry into the register of title, overriding interests and overreachable interests. It reviews how alterations are made to the register; and applies the above to the case study and learning tasks. The Land Registration Act 1925 introduced the modern registered land system, which today is governed by the Land Registration Act 2002. The response of the 1925 legislation was to expand a system of registered conveyancing, establishing a national Land Registry recording ownership and providing proof of title to land which could be relied upon by subsequent purchasers of it. The property register describes the estate, indicating whether the title is freehold or leasehold and the geographical location of the land with reference to an official title plan based on the Ordnance Survey map.
