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Land Titles Act 1925
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30 Parties interested may enter caveat
(1) Any person having or claiming an interest in any land advertised as
provided in division 5.2, or the legal practitioner or agent in the ACT
of any such person, may within the time limited by the
registrar-general for that purpose lodge a caveat with the
registrar-general, forbidding the bringing of the land under this Act,
and every such caveat shall particularise the interest, lien or charge
claimed by the caveator.
(2) No such caveat shall be received by the registrar-general unless some
address within the ACT is appointed therein as the place at which
notices and proceedings relating to the caveat may be served.
Caveats against original applications Division 5.3
(3) Any person lodging any caveat with the registrar-general without
reasonable cause shall be liable to make to any person who has
sustained damage thereby such compensation as is just, and the
compensation shall be recoverable in an action at law by the person
who has sustained damage from the person who lodged the caveat.