The Conveyancing and Law of Property Act - Ministry of Legal Affairs

MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS
LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
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10 Chap. 56:01 Conveyancing and Law of Property
“land” includes land of any tenure, houses and other buildings,
mines and minerals, and other corporeal hereditaments; also
a rent and other incorporeal hereditaments, and an easement,
right, privilege, or benefit in, over, or derived from land, and
also an undivided share in land; and in this definition “mines
and minerals” include any strata or seam of minerals or
substances in or under any land, and powers of working and
winning the same; and “hereditaments” mean real property
which under an intestacy devolve on the next of kin;
“lessor” includes an under-lessor and a person deriving title under
a lessor or under-lessor; “ lessee” includes an under-lessee
and a person deriving title under a lessee or under-lessee;
and “ lease” includes an under-lease or other tenancy;
“mining lease” means a lease for mining purposes; that is, the
searching for, winning, working, getting, making
merchantable, carrying away, or disposing of mines and
minerals, or purposes connected therewith, and includes a
grant or licence for mining purposes;
“mortgage” includes any charge on any property for securing
money or money’s worth; and “mortgage money” means
money, or money’s worth, secured by a mortgage; and
“mortgagor” includes any person from time to time deriving
title under the original mortgagor, or entitled to redeem a
mortgage, according to his estate, interest, or right in the
mortgaged property; and “mortgagee” includes any person
from time to time deriving title under the original mortgagee;
and “mortgagee in possession” means a mortgagee who, in
right of the mortgage, has entered into and is in possession
of the mortgaged property;
“personal representative” means the executor or administrator for
the time being of a deceased person and includes the
Administrator General;
“possession” includes receipt of rents and profits or the right to
receive the same, if any;
“property” includes anything in action, and any interest in real
or personal property;
UNOFFICIAL VERSION
UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2011