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Land registration

Practice guides: detailed information

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Guides 1 to 10

  • First registrations (PG1)
  • First registration of title if deeds are lost or destroyed (PG2)
  • Cautions against first registration (PG3)
  • Adverse possession of registered land (PG4)
  • Adverse possession of (1) unregistered land and (2) registered land where a right to be registered was acquired before 13 October 2003 (PG5)
  • Devolution on the death of a registered proprietor (PG6)
  • Price paid or value information: registration procedures (PG7)
  • Execution of deeds (PG8)
  • Powers of attorney and registered land (PG9)
  • Index map: official search (PG10)

Guides 11 to 19

  • Inspection and application for official copies (PG11)
  • Official searches (PG12)
  • Index of relating franchises and manors: official searches (PG13)
  • Charities: advice for applications sent to HM Land Registry (PG14)
  • Charitable incorporated organisations (PG14a)
  • Overriding interests and their disclosure (PG15)
  • Profits a prendre (taking natural resources from another's land) (PG16)
  • Souvenir land: guidance on making applications (PG17)
  • Franchises: registration under the Land Registration Act 2002 (PG18)
  • Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests (PG19)
  • Restrictions and leasehold properties (PG19A)

Guides 20 to 29

  • Home rights and applications under the Family Law Act 1996 (PG20)
  • Using our forms for complex and more unusual transactions (PG21)
  • Manors: manorial titles and rights (PG22)
  • Private trusts of land (PG24)
  • Leases: when to register (PG25)
  • Leases: determination (PG26)
  • The leasehold reform legislation (PG27)
  • Extension of leases (PG28)
  • Registration of legal charges and deeds of variation of charge (PG29)

Guides 30 to 39

  • Approval of mortgage documentation (PG30)
  • Discharge of charges (PG31)
  • Large-scale applications and calculation of fees (PG33)
  • Personal insolvency (PG34)
  • Corporate insolvency (PG35)
  • Administration and receivership (PG36)
  • Dispositions executed by Law of Property Act receivers (PG36a)
  • Objections and disputes: HM Land Registry practice and procedures (PG37)
  • Costs in disputed applications (PG38)
  • Rectification and indemnity (PG39)

Guides 40 to 49

  • HM Land Registry plans: guide overview (PG40)
  • HM Land Registry plans: the basis of HM Land Registry applications (PG40s1)
  • Preparing plans for HM Land Registry applications (PG40s2)
  • HM Land Registry plans: boundaries (PG40s3)
  • Boundary agreements and determined boundaries (PG40s4)
  • HM Land Registry plans: title plan (PG40s5)
  • HM Land Registry: other plan-related services and guides (PG40s6)
  • Developing estates: registration services (PG41)
  • Developing estates: estate boundary approval (PG41s1)
  • Developing estates: estate plan approval (PG41s2)
  • Developing estates: registration services - approval of draft transfers and leases (PG41s3)
  • Developing estates: plot sales, transfers and leases (PG41s4)
  • Plan requirements and surveying specification (PG41s5)
  • Voluntary application to note overriding interests (PG41s6)
  • Upgrading the class of title (PG42)
  • Investigation or enforcement proceedings (court, insolvency, tax): applications (PG43)
  • Transfers of public housing estates (PG47)
  • Implied covenants (PG48)
  • Return and rejection of applications for registration (PG49)

Guides 50 to 59

  • Requisition and cancellation procedures (PG50)
  • Easements claimed by prescription (PG52)
  • Acquisition of land by general vesting declaration (PG54)
  • Address for service (PG55)
  • Rentcharges (PG56)
  • Exempting documents from the general right to inspect and copy (PG57)
  • Format of registers for titles in Wales (PG58)

Guides 60 to 69

  • HM Land Registry: commonhold (PG60)
  • Easements (PG62)
  • Land charges: registration, official search, office copy and cancellation (PG63)
  • Prescribed clauses leases (PG64)
  • Registration of mines and minerals (PG65)
  • Overriding interests that lost automatic protection in 2013 (PG66)
  • Temporary changes to HM Land Registry’s evidence of identity requirements (PG67A)
  • Evidence of identity: conveyancers (PG67)
  • Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land (PG68)
  • HM Land Registry: Islamic financing (PG69)

Guides 70 to 79

  • Nil-rate band discretionary trusts (PG70)
  • Development schemes (PG72)
  • Statements of truth (PG73)
  • Searches of the index of proprietors’ names (PG74)
  • Transfer under a chargee's power of sale (PG75)
  • Charging orders (PG76)
  • Altering the register by removing land from a title plan (PG77)
  • Overseas companies and limited liability partnerships (PG78)
  • Local land charges (PG79)

Guides 80 to 82

  • Coronavirus (COVID-19): useful information for conveyancers (PG80)
  • Encouraging the use of digital technology in identity verification (PG81)
  • Electronic signatures accepted by HM Land Registry (PG82)

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