Buying Commercial Property · glossary

Official copies

Copies of the register of title and the title plan, issued by HM Land Registry. They show the register on one date only, so write that date at the head of your title table. Clause 4.3 counts from it. Definition: Official Copies · Chapter 3

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

How it comes up, in Chapter 3
HM Land Registry keeps a register for each title to land. It says what the land is, who owns it and what burdens it. A buyer's solicitors read it in official copies, issued by the registry. They come with the title plan, the registry's map of the land.
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As defined in the training sale contract
the official copies of the register of title number WYK712408 and of its title plan, dated 6 March 2026;
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