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The Logic Of English Land Law

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As it has been a substantial part of the Land Registration Act 2002, I would like to look into the process of electronic conveyancing and how it supports my argument that the logic of English land law had been changed through the Act to a more rational, market efficient way. The Land Register was empowered to set up a “Land Registry Network”, this network could “go beyond the legal aspect of the transaction and could cover the whole transaction from the point when a property is put on sale”. The formalities of electronic dispositions were also introduced in the Act. The electronic document now had to “stipulate its effective time and date, as well as to include electronic signatures of all the parties by whom it purports to be authenticated plus every electronic signature has to be certified.” If an electric document “complied with these formalities, it was to be regarded by law as a written deed, signed by each individual and sealed by each corporation”. Another important concept development was network access agreement where the lawyers would be allowed to make changes to the title or the cautions register without involving the land registry officers. There were rules imposed on regulation of the network and in order to enter into a network access agreement an applicant had to fulfill criteria. The Act has also set out that whenever there was a conflict, the “overriding” nature of the obligation owed under the network access agreement, such obligation would

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