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Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1898
3Certain conveyances to pass the fee to purchaser notwithstanding the omission of words of inheritance
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3 Certain conveyances to pass the fee to purchaser notwithstanding the omission of words of inheritance
> In every case where before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, any person seised of or entitled to any land in fee, or entitled to have a Crown grant thereof made to him in fee, has sold and has conveyed or contracted to convey such land to a purchaser, the purchaser shall be deemed as against the vendor, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, to have taken or to be entitled to (as the case may be) an estate in fee in such land notwithstanding the absence of any words of inheritance in the instrument of conveyance or contract (as the case may be), unless a contrary intention appears by such instrument or otherwise:
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> Provided that this section shall not prejudice the title of any person in possession of the land on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and claiming under such vendor.
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> **s 3:** Am 1901 No 37, sec 3.