Unregistered Land Conveyancing - A Practical Workshop

Introduction

This practical in-person course, aimed at trainees and junior solicitors, will give you the confidence to do unregistered land conveyancing. You will learn by working with unregistered title documents* how to establish a good root, a good chain of ownership, and which requisitions on title need to be raised, and those which can be safely ignored.

The seminar will not be a lecture on unregistered land conveyancing or a review of how unregistered land conveyancing differs from registered land conveyancing. It will be a practical and interactive session.

*Facsimile titles have been prepared which attendees will work through.

What You Will Learn

This seminar will cover the following:

• A practical and easy-to-use method to investigate an unregistered title - so you don’t miss anything, but don’t waste time
• Identifying a good root, establishing a good chain of ownership, and spotting the gaps
• Speed reading Deeds of Conveyance and Abstracts of Title - identifying what is there, what needs to be there, and what does it mean?
• Going behind the root?
• Using the safety measures provided by statute and caselaw to protect conveyancers and their clients
• Pragmatic ways to deal with historic drafting errors
• Death, Grants of Representation, and endorsed memoranda
• Deeds of Assent
• Capacity - beneficial owners, survivors of joint tenants, trustees and PRs
• Land Charges Searches - when, against who, and for what period?
• Drafting and reviewing the unregistered land contract
• Deed packs - sorting out ‘the wheat from the chaff’