Law Of Property Acts in Europe

Definition of Law Of Property Acts

The name given to the following group of Acts : Law of Property Acts, 1922, 1925 ; Administration of Estates Act, 1925; Land Charges Act, 1925; Land Registration Act, 1925; Settled Land Act, 1925; Trustee Act, 1925; Universities and College Estates Act, 1925.
The Law of Property Act, 1922, was drafted by a committee set up by Lord Birkenhead when Lord Chancellor to reform the law and rid it of the traces of the feudal system, and is consequently known as Lord Birkenhead’ s Act. It was due to come into operation on January 1, 1925, but was postponed, and finally only came into effect as amended by the Law of Property (Amendment) Act, 1924, with regard to the abolition of copyhold tenure, as from January 1, 1926.
The rest of the Act was split up into Acts dealing with particular subjects, as above, with effect from January 1, 1926

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Definition of Law Of Property Acts is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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