| 1 | Adverse possession toolkit A toolkit to guide users around PLC Property materials on adverse possession. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Children and the law An overview of the law as it applies to children including contracting capacity, advertising to children and data protection. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Co-ownership and trusts of land toolkit A toolkit to guide users around PLC materials on jointly owned land and drafting, interpreting and negotiating a declaration of trust. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Drafting property transfers toolkit A toolkit to guide users around PLC Property materials that may assist when drafting transfers of property. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | Investigating the property: title investigation A practice note giving an outline of the process of investigating title for registered and unregistered land, and a checklist of points that may cause concern. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 6 | Limited liability partnerships (LLP): overview An overview of the structure and operation of a limited liability partnership (LLP) incorporated under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000. This note contains the law from 1 October 2009. For details of the law applicable to limited liability partnerships before 1 October 2009, see Practice note, Limited liability partnerships: overview: pre-1 October 2009. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 7 | What is a charity? A practice note setting out the essential elements of charitable status, including definitions of charity in the Charities Act 2011 (for general purposes) and the Finance Act 2010 (for tax purposes) and an overview of legal structures for charities. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 8 | Acquiring land by adverse possession This practice note explains the elements needed to establish adverse possession: factual possession and intention to possess. It also links to two practice notes on the procedure for claiming title to land by adverse possession: Adverse possession and the Land Registration Act 2002. This explains the regime for adverse possession in relation to registered land under the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA 2002), which came into force on 13 October 2003. Adverse possession before the Land Registration Act 2002. This explains the regime for adverse possession as it used to apply to both registered and unregistered land, and which will continue to apply to unregistered land. The law on adverse possession as it stood before the LRA 2002, continues to apply to registered land where the possession relied upon is for a period of at least 12 years ending before 13 October 2003. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Adverse possession and the Land Registration Act 2002 A note on the law relating to adverse possession following the Land Registration Act 2002, which came into force on 13 October 2003. The note contains links to flow charts on the squatter's entitlement to make an application for registration as proprietor and on the squatter's entitlement to be registered. It also includes a list of action points for consideration by the landowner and the squatter. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 10 | Boundaries and boundary rules A practice note explaining the general boundaries rule, and the rules for fixing boundaries under the Land Registration Act 1925 and the Land Registration Act 2002. The note also sets out the more commonly used boundary presumptions relating to roadways, hedges and ditches, non-tidal rivers and streams, tidal rivers and streams, lakes and the sea-shore. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Cautions against first registration under the Land Registration ... This practice note explains the law and practice relating to cautions against first registration under the Land Registration Act 2002. It sets out the law as it has applied since 13 October 2003. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 12 | Co-ownership and severing a joint tenancy A Practice note explaining the principles of co-ownership and how severance can be effected to convert a joint tenancy into a tenancy in common. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | Dealings with registered land under the Land Registration Act ... This practice note: Explains the powers of an owner of registered land. Looks at which dispositions of registered land must be registered. Covers the forms and procedures for making Land Registry searches and applications. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Declarations of trust for jointly owned property A summary of transactional issues that may be relevant to a declaration of trust for jointly owned property. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 15 | Deducing title A practice note on deduction of title to registered and unregistered; freehold and leasehold land. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 16 | Dispositions by operation of law: Land Registry requirements A note on the registration requirements for dispositions by operation of law of registered and unregistered land. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 17 | First registration of title under the Land Registration Act 2002 This Practice note explains the application of the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA 2002) and the Land Registration Rules 2003 as amended by the Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2008 (LRAR 2008) to the compulsory and voluntary first registration of title to unregistered land. It also covers the more practical aspects, such as the forms to be used. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 18 | Good leasehold title: issues for buyers A practice note giving an overview of the issues that should be considered when acting on the purchase of a leasehold property that is registered with good leasehold title. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 19 | Implied covenants for title A practice note on the implied covenants for title under the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 20 | Investigating the property A practice note on the process of investigating a property on behalf of a prospective buyer. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 21 | Investigating the property: planning title A practice note setting out the ways in which a buyer can establish the planning position in relation to a property as part of its title investigation. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 22 | Land vested in Official Custodian for Charities: practical points ... A practice note with guidance on the form of transfers, mortgages and leases of charity land vested in the Official Custodian for Charities. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 23 | Lasting powers of attorney This Practice note explains the regime of lasting powers of attorney (LPAs), which was introduced by the Mental Capacity Act 2005 on 1 October 2007, including: How to make an LPA. The formalities for registering an LPA. Guidance for third parties when relying on an LPA. From 1 October 2007, LPAs replaced enduring powers of attorney (EPAs) as the primary way of appointing a decision maker to act on a donor's behalf in the event of a loss of mental capacity. LPAs can authorise an attorney to make decisions about the donor's personal welfare, as well as decisions about their property and affairs. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 24 | Overview of the First Time Buyers' Initiative The First Time Buyers' Initiative (FTBI) is a Government initiative aimed at making more affordable homes available to first-time buyers. The FTBI is delivered by English Partnerships through regional HomeBuy Agents.HomeBuy has produced a detailed guide to the FTBI. This Practice note is intended to provide a short overview. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 25 | Perpetuities: rules for property transactions This practice note summarises the perpetuity rules applicable to property transactions. It looks at the new rules from 6 April 2010 and provides a reminder of the rules that apply to instruments which took effect before that date. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 26 | Personal liability of PCC members, as charity trustees, for ... A note explaining how members of a Parochial Church Council (PCC) may become personally liable if their PCC does not enforce rights in respect of chancel repairs. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 27 | Prescribed clauses leases This practice note looks at the use of prescribed clauses in property leases and how the clauses should be completed. It also covers subsidiary issues such as making exempt information document applications in relation to prescribed clauses leases and dealing with any errors made in the prescribed clauses. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 28 | Probate: transferring a deceased's equitable interest in land A note on what is required to transfer a deceased's equitable interest in land to a beneficiary under either a will or the intestacy rules. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 29 | Property contracts: completion A practice note on the issues to consider when drafting and negotiating clauses in freehold or leasehold property sale contracts that deal with completion. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 30 | Property contracts: deducing title A practice note on the issues to consider when drafting and negotiating clauses in property sale contracts that deal with deduction of title and requisitions on title to registered or unregistered land, freehold or leasehold. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 31 | Protection of third party rights under the Land Registration Act ... This practice note explains how to protect third party rights under the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA 2002). | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 32 | Recital to a deed under section 45(6) of the Law of Property ... A note on section 45(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 33 | Restrictive covenants This practice note on restrictive covenants covers: The essential characteristics of a restrictive covenant. How to check whether a covenant is valid and enforceable. Various ways of dealing with existing covenants, including indemnity insurance and Lands Tribunal applications. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 34 | Searches: Enquiries of a local authority This practice note explains when enquiries of a local authority should be made, how the enquiries are made and what information the replies may give. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 35 | Searches: Water and drainage enquiries This practice note explains when water and drainage enquiries should be raised with water service companies, how the enquiries are raised, and what information the replies to the enquiries are likely to reveal. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 36 | Seller's duty to disclose information about the property A practice note on the common law principle of caveat emptor (buyer beware) by which the onus is on the buyer to investigate the property it is acquiring and by which the seller is under a limited duty to disclose latent encumbrances and defects in title. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 37 | Selling with vacant possession A note on the meaning of vacant possession, when an obligation in a contract to give vacant possession arises and the remedies available if the obligation is breached. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 38 | Site Assembly - mapping tools to make it easier A practice note on the commercial mapping services that make site assembly and development planning easier, more accurate and cheaper. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 39 | Telecommunications leases and the Electronic ... A note on the statutory rights given to telecoms operators under the Electronic Communications Code, including issues for a landowner when entering into an agreement with a telecoms operator. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 40 | The registration gap and the case of Brown and Root A Practice note on the legal and drafting implications of the gap in time between the date of a transfer and the date of registration of the transfer at the Land Registry. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 41 | Third parties and limited liability partnerships Each member of an LLP is an agent for that LLP and can bind that LLP, except in limited circumstances. The Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 gives protection to third parties dealing with members of an LLP. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 42 | Transferring trust assets A practice note about how to transfer trust assets to or from a trust and between trustees, with details of how to transfer the most common types of trust asset. The note also covers transferring part of an asset, difficulties that arise if a person involved in the transfer of assets dies, lacks capacity or is a minor, and powers of the court to transfer trust assets. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 43 | Trustee relationship between seller and buyer between ... This practice note explains the trustee relationship that arises on exchange of contracts where the contract is specifically enforceable. The beneficial interest passes to the buyer but for certain purposes the seller is regarded as holding the legal estate on trust for the buyer pending completion. This trust relationship imposes certain obligations on the seller to look after the property pending completion. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 44 | Unregistered land: undiscoverable land charges A note discussing whether a purchaser of unregistered land is bound by a pre-root registered land charge which they could not have discovered. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 45 | Who is the competent landlord during the registration gap for ... A note on who is the competent landlord for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 in the period between completion and registration of a transfer. | Practice notes | Maintained |