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Law of Property Act 2000
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86 Powers incident to interest of mortgagee
If a mortgage is made by instrument, the mortgagee has the
following powers to the like extent, but not further, as if they are
conferred by terms contained in the instrument of mortgage:
(a) subject to section 89, a power to sell, or to concur with any
other person in selling, the mortgaged property or a part of the
mortgaged property, and all the interest of the mortgagor in
the property or part whether subject to prior charges or not
and whether together or in lots or in subdivision or otherwise,
by public auction or by private contract and for a sum payable
either in one sum or by instalments, subject to the conditions
with respect to title, evidence of title or other matters as the
mortgagee thinks appropriate, and with power to vary any
contract for sale, buy in at an auction or rescind any contract
for sale and to resell, without being answerable for any loss
occasioned by the exercise of the power, with power to make
the roads, streets and passages and grant the easements of
right of way or drainage over the mortgaged property as the
circumstances may require and the mortgagee thinks
appropriate;
(b) a power, at any time after the date of the instrument of
mortgage, to insure and keep insured against loss or damage
by fire, flood, lightning, storm, tempest and earthquake a
building or any effects or property of an insurable nature,
whether affixed to freehold land or not, being or forming part of
the property which or an interest in which is mortgaged, and
the premiums paid for the insurance are a charge on the
mortgaged property or interest in addition to the mortgage
money and with the same priority and with interest at the
same rate as the mortgage money;
(c) subject to section 96, a power to appoint a receiver of the
income of the mortgaged property or a part of the mortgaged
property or, if the mortgaged property consists of an interest in
income, a rent charge or an annual or other periodical sum, to
appoint a receiver of that property or a part of that property;
(d) a power, while the mortgagee is in possession, to cut and sell
timber and other trees ripe for cutting and not planted or left
standing for shelter or ornament, to sever and sell a chattel
affixed to the property or to contract for the cutting, severing or
sale of timber, other trees or a chattel which contract is to be
completed within 12 months after the making of the contract;
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(e) a power (on default) to enter into possession of the land and
receive the rents and profits of the land or from time to time let
the land for a term not exceeding 12 months;
(f) a power (on default) to commence proceedings for recovery of
the land either before or after entering into the receipt of the
rents and profits of the land or selling the land under the
power of sale;
(g) subject to section 89, a power to sell an easement, right or
privilege of any kind over or in relation to the mortgaged