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Title Guarantee: Worth its weight
Roger Cohen summarises a series of cases which demonstrate the issues that can arise when a title is registered by fraud or error ‘Disputes can arise between competing innocent owners and between the innocent victim and the Land Registry as provider of the indemnity.’ The elevator pitch for the system of title by registration in …
Cases Referenced
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- Gold Harp Properties Ltd v MacLeod & ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1084
- In re Chowood's Registered Land [1933] 1 Ch 574
- Malory Enterprises Ltd v Cheshire Homes (UK) Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 151
- Swift 1st Ltd v The Chief Land Registrar [2014] EWHC B26 (Ch); [2015] EWCA Civ 330