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12 October 2012 / Christopher Jessel
Issue: 7533 / Categories: Features , Property
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To the manor born

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Christopher Jessel summarises the forthcoming changes to manorial rights

Manorial rights will cease to be overriding interests in registered land on 12 October 2013. Such rights, particularly to minerals, can be valuable. If they are not already mentioned on the register of title to the land subject to them, a person who is entitled to the benefit and who wishes to preserve them will need to take action. Correspondingly, as the burden can affect the value of land subject to such claims, the owner of that land who disputes the rights will need to be ready to resist them.

Overriding interests

Overriding interests are rights which bind land even though they are not mentioned on the register of title. The policy of the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA 2002) was to reduce the number of them so that as far as possible anyone who looked at the register could find out what rights the land was subject to. Lists of overriding interests are set out in LRA 2002 in Sch

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