New Zealand Law/Property

Standard Form of Registrable Memoranda edit

Searching Titles edit

Bradley v AG [1978]

Requirements of Registrable Instruments edit

Priorities between Instruments edit

Caveats edit

Sims v Lowe
Harrison v NZI Bank ltd
Holt v Anchorage Mgt
Landco Albany v Fu Hao Construction

Indefeasibility of Registered Title edit

Frazer v Walker
Davies v Laughton
Duncan v McDonald
Faulkner v Tauranga DC
Bunt v Hallinan
Sutton v O’Kane
Congregational Christian Church v Broadlands
Efstratiou v Glantschnig

Powers of Corrections - ss 80 and 81 LTA edit

80 Errors in register may be corrected

(1) The Registrar may, upon such evidence as appears to him sufficient, subject to any regulations under this Act, correct errors and supply omissions in certificates of title or in the register, or in any entry therein, and may call in any outstanding instrument of title for that purpose.

(2) The Registrar may cancel or correct any computer register and, if appropriate, create a new computer register in order to correct any error or supply any omission in any computer register.

81 Surrender of instrument obtained through fraud, etc

(1) Where it appears to the satisfaction of the Registrar that any certificate of title or other instrument has been issued in error, or contains any misdescription of land or of boundaries, or that any entry or endorsement has been made in error, or that any grant, certificate, instrument, entry, or endorsement has been fraudulently or wrongfully obtained, or is fraudulently or wrongfully retained, he may require the person to whom that grant, certificate, or instrument has been so issued, or by whom it is retained, to deliver up the same for the purpose of being cancelled or corrected, as the case may require.

(2) If the Registrar is satisfied as to any matter referred to in this section and there is a computer register involved, the Registrar may cancel or correct any computer register and, if appropriate, create a new computer register.

(3) The Registrar must not take action under subsection (2) without first giving notice to any person appearing to be affected and giving a reasonable period for any response.

Mortgages and Leases edit

Downsview Nominees v First City Corp
Neva Hldgs v Wilson
Italia Holdings v Lonsdale
Fatac Ltd v Commissioner for Inland Revenue
Cash Handling v Augustus Terrace
Nordern v Blueport

Easements edit

Jansen v Mansor

Covenants edit

Encroachment edit

Kingfish Lodge v Archer

Co-ownership edit

Re Foley
Fleming v Hargreaves
McMahon v McMahon

Resource Management Act edit

Subdivision of Land edit

Joint Family Homes Act 1964 edit

The Future of the Joint Family Homes Act, New Zealand Law Commission Report 77 (2001)

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