Buying Commercial Property · glossary

Charges register

Register C of a register of title: the rights and promises that someone other than the owner can enforce. At Beckside Works, entries 1 and 2, the 1962 covenant, stay with the land. Entry 3, Northfold's charge, is paid off at completion. Contract, Annex 2 · Chapter 3 · see Incumbrances

Explained in Chapter 3, Reading the Title, of Buying Commercial Property.

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The charges register (register C) lists the rights and promises that someone other than the owner can enforce. Each entry matters, because a buyer of registered land takes it subject to whatever the register protects (section 29 of the Land Registration Act 2002). A claim that nobody put on the register does not bind the buyer, apart from a few rights explained below. Here register C has three entries, and they meet two different fates.
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