Real Property Act 1845

Section 3 of the act stated that "a lease required by law to be in writing ... shall be void at law unless also made by deed".

Section 5 reversed a common law rule that a person could not take an immediate interest in land unless named in an indenture under seal.^[2]

Section 6 stated that contingent interests were entirely alienable.

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Conveyance of Real Property Act 1845

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Real Property.
Citation	8 & 9 Vict. c. 119
Territorial extent	England and Wales Scotland [d]
Dates
Royal assent	8 August 1845
Commencement	1 October 1845[e]
Repealed	1 January 1882
Other legislation
Repealed by	Conveyancing Act 1881
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

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The act 8 & 9 Vict. c. 119, sometimes called the Conveyance of Real Property Act 1845,^[3] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.^[4]

Section 3 of the act, "save so far as same relates to Feoffments, Partitions, and Exchanges, repealed by section 104 of, and schedule (B.) to, the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 154), which came into force on 1 January 1861.^[5].

Section 1 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 66), which came into force on 11 August 1875.^[6]

Section 8 of the act was repealed for England and Wales by section 10 of, and the tenth schedule to, the Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 5), which came into force on 1 January 1926.^[7]

Sections 2–7 and 9 of the act were repealed for England and Wales by section 207 of, and the seventh schedule to, the Law of Property Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 20), which came into force on 1 January 1926.^[8]

• English land law