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Long Title

Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II ESTABLISHMENT OF LAND TITLES REGISTRY

Part III INITIAL REGISTRATION OF TITLES

Division 1 — Bringing land under the Act on alienation

Division 2 — Applications and schemes to bring land under this Act

Division 3 — Qualified titles and caveats

Part IV REGISTRATION

Part V EFFECT OF REGISTRATION

Division 1 — Indefeasibility and priority

Division 2 — No title by adverse possession

Part VI INSTRUMENTS

Part VII TRANSFERS

Part VIII MORTGAGES AND CHARGES

Division I — Mortgages of registered land

Division 2 — Common law mortgages notified on on land-register

Part IX LEASES

Part X EASEMENTS

Part XI TRANSMISSIONS

Part XII CAVEATS

Part XIII WRITS AND ORDERS OF COURT

Part XIV RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Part XV STATUTORY ACQUISITION AND SALE

Part XVI POWERS OF ATTORNEY

Part XVII CIVIL RIGHTS AND REMEDIES

Part XVIII SEARCHES AND CERTIFIED COPIES

Part XIX MISCELLANEOUS

THE SCHEDULE Part i

Legislative History

Comparative Table

 
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On 21/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 21/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 21/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 28/03/2013.
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Discharge of mortgages and charges
78.
—(1)  The parties may agree to the discharge of —
(a)
the whole of the mortgaged or charged land from a specified part of the principal sum or other money thereby secured;
(b)
a part of the mortgaged or charged land from the whole of the principal sum or other money thereby secured; or
(c)
the whole of the mortgaged or charged land from the whole of the principal sum or other money thereby secured, but without discharging the mortgagor or chargor from any personal obligation to pay that money.
(2)  A discharge of mortgage or charge in an approved form shall be registered by entering a memorial thereof on the relevant folio whereupon the land shall be freed from the mortgage or charge and from all rights and powers of the mortgagee or chargee, either absolutely or to any lesser extent as expressed in the discharge.
(3)  Where a discharge was executed as a separate instrument in respect of a mortgage registered prior to 1st March 1994, the Registrar shall dispense with the production of the duplicate of the relevant mortgage.
[25/2001]