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)
- Extension of leases: checklist for submitting an application to register the surrender and regrant of a leasehold estate (PG28s1)
- 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 entities (PG78)
- Local land charges (PG79)