Acts and Regulations

P-19 - Property Act

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Effect of conveyance
22(1)A conveyance of land shall be deemed to include, and shall by virtue of this Act operate to convey with the land all buildings, erections, fixtures, commons, trees, woods, underwoods, hedges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights, hereditaments, appurtenances and advantages whatsoever belonging or in any way appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land, or any part thereof, or at the time of conveyance demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to the land or any part thereof; and also if the conveyance is by the beneficial owner and is expressed to be to the grantee and his heirs, all the estate, right, title, interest, inheritance, use, trust, dower, property, profit, possession, claim and demand whatsoever of the grantor, in, to, out of, or upon the same lands, and every part and parcel thereof, with their and every of their appurtenances.
22(2)A conveyance of land, having houses or other buildings thereon, shall be deemed to include, and shall by virtue of this Act operate to convey with the land, houses, or other buildings, all outhouses, erections, fixtures, cellars, areas, courts, courtyards, cisterns, sewers, gutters, drains, ways, passages, lights, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights and advantages whatsoever, appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land, houses, or other buildings conveyed, or any of them, or any part thereof, or at the time of conveyance demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to the lands, houses or other buildings conveyed, or any of them or any part thereof.
22(3)This section applies only if, and as far as a contrary intention is not expressed in the conveyance, and has effect subject to the terms of the conveyance and to the provisions therein contained.
22(4)This section shall not be construed as giving to any person a better title to any property, right or thing mentioned in this section than the title which the conveyance gives to him to the land expressed to be conveyed, or as conveying to him any property, right or thing mentioned in this section further or otherwise than as the same could have been conveyed to him by the conveying parties.
22(5)This section applies only to conveyances made after July 1, 1904.
R.S., c.177, s.21