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From:: HM Land Registry

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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)
Transfer forms for complex 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)
Formal apportionment and redemption of a rent or rentcharge (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)
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)

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