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How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). You must decide which…
You can find out what type of joint ownership you have by checking…
This is called ‘severance of joint tenancy’. You should apply for a ‘Form…
You need the agreement of all the other joint owners to change from being…
You must apply to the Court of Protection if all of the following apply:…
Ownership of copyright works may depend on the circumstances under which the work was created.
Buy your rented home through the Right to Shared Ownership scheme: who can apply, how to apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares, repairing and selling your home.
Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.
Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Mullan on 18 December 2024.
Requirements for excise goods held in duty suspension in a warehouse by an authorised warehousekeeper, registered owner, duty representative or registered consignor in the UK.
This notice provides a glossary of Scottish land law terms.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
As a landlord, find out if the leaseholders in your block have the right to take over management of your building, and the process they must go through to do this
Use this form to record changes to the ownership of UK trade marks for full assignment of the rights.
The law on squatting - what squatting is, squatters' rights, removing squatters, getting your property back from squatters and adverse possession. Includes information from the withdrawn EX332 and EX333 guidance.
Supports effective delivery of planning application process.
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