Land Titles Act · 1985 Revised Edition · Part V · Instruments
51. Proprietor must execute
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In order to be registrable, any instrument purporting to dispose of or to create an interest in registered land shall be executed by the proprietor or proprietors thereof named in the land-register at the time of registration of the instrument.
order
“order” means an order of the Court, and includes a rule and a decree;
This section does not prevent the registration of any instrument executed by —
the survivor or survivors of joint proprietors;
the personal representative of a deceased proprietor in severalty;
the attorney or other agent authorised in accordance with Part XV;
the sheriff or other officer of the Court acting under a writ, order or decree, of a court of competent jurisdiction;
the proprietor under his lawfully altered name where such name is different from that registered in the land-register; or
any person empowered in that behalf directly or indirectly by this or any other written law.
Before registering any instrument executed by a person other than the proprietor named in the land-register, the Registrar may require production of the instrument, authority or evidence, empowering or enabling that person to execute.[47
land
“land” means the surface of any defined parcel of the earth, and all substances thereunder, and so much of the column of air above the surface as is reasonably necessary for the proprietor’s use and enjoyment, and includes any estate or interest in land and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto. Subject to any provision to the contrary the proprietorship of land includes natural rights to air, light, water and support and the right of access to any highway on which the land abuts;