Reference no: EM133310984
Questions
1. Which of the following is not a valid method of severing a beneficial joint tenancy?
a. Sending notice in writing to all the other joint tenants
b. Agreeing mutually with at least one other beneficial joint tenant that the joint tenancy is severed
c. Selling a share in the property to a third party
d. Mortgaging a share in the property to a third party
2. A trainee solicitor has four files of new cases and is asked to register (where required) at HM Land Registry the following transactions, all made from an unregistered freehold estate.
1) The grant of a lease of 12 years.
2) The grant of a lease of exactly 7 years.
3) The creation of a first legal mortgage protected by deposit of title deeds.
4) The transfer of the unregistered freehold estate to a former spouse post-divorce.
Which of the above transactions out of an unregistered freehold estate will NOT trigger compulsory first registration?
a. 4 only
b. 1, 3 and 4
c. 2 only
d. 2 and 3