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Land Transfer Act 2017

Miscellaneous applications and other matters - Applications for title based on adverse possession

164: Caveat by registered owner of fee simple or other freehold estate

You could also call this:

"Stopping land deals as the land owner"

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You can lodge a caveat to stop someone dealing with a piece of land. The Registrar will refuse an application if you are the registered owner of the land and have already lodged a caveat under section 162. This applies if you own the land as a fee simple, or have a life estate, future estate, or another type of freehold estate in the land.

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Part 4Miscellaneous applications and other matters
Applications for title based on adverse possession

164Caveat by registered owner of fee simple or other freehold estate

  1. The Registrar must refuse an application if satisfied that a caveat has been lodged under section 162 by or for the registered owner of any of the following freehold estates in any land to which the application relates:

  2. an estate in fee simple:
    1. a life estate:
      1. a future estate:
        1. any other freehold estate that terminates when a future event happens but that has not yet terminated.

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