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Conveyancing glossary
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Absolute title
Acting for the lender
Administration
Adverse possession
Agreement
Agricultural holding
Apportionment
Architect certificate
Asbestos
Assured shorthold tenancy
Back to back mortgage fraud
Bank draft
Bankers draft
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy search
Beneficial owner
Boundaries
Bridging finance
Brine search
Building regulation compliance
Building regulations
Buy to let
Capacity
Caution
Caveat emptor
Certificate of title
Chain
Chancel liability
Chancel repairs
Charge
Charge certificate
Chattels
Cleared funds
Client account
CML Lenders Handbook
Co-habitee
Coal search
Collective enfranchisement
Common land
Commonhold
Company search
Completion
Completion date
Completion statement
Compulsory purchase order
Condition
Conflict of interest
Contaminated land
Contract negotiations
Contract of sale
Contract race
Conveyancing
Court of protection
Covenants
Damp treatment
Deduction of title
Deed of gift
Deed of guarantee
Deed of trust
Deed of variation
Delayed completion
Demised property
Deposit
Disadvantaged areas relief
Disbursements
Discharge of charge
Drainage report
Duty of care
Easement
Energy performance certificate
Engrossment
Enquiries before contract
Environmental search
EPC
Epitome of Title
Estate
Estate agent
Exchange (of contracts)
Exclusivity agreement
Execution
Expedited transaction
Extending a lease
Filed plan
Fixtures, fittings and content
Flood search
Forfeiture
Freehold
Freehold reversion
Frustrated contracts
FTB
Gazanging
Gazumping
Gazundering
Good leasehold title
Grant of Probate
Grant of representation
Ground rent
Guarantees
Guarantor
Identity check
Indemnity cover
Indemnity insurance
Index map search
Insurance at exchange
Investigation of Title
Land Charges Department
Land Registry
Land Registry Charge
Land Registry Search
Landlord
Leasehold
Leasehold property information form
Leasehold supplement
Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT)
Legal fees
Legal ombudsman
Lender
Lender conveyancing panel
Licence to occupy
Licensed conveyancer
Listed building
Local authority search
Local land charges register
Local planning authority
Lock out agreement
Loft conversion planning permission
Longstop date
Management Company
Management company share
Matrimonial home rights
Memorandum of sale
Mining search
Misdescription
Misrepresentation
Money laundering
Mortgage
Mortgage fraud
Mortgage offer
Mortgage redemption
NHBC
NLIS
Notice
Notice fee
Notice of charge
Notice of transfer
Notice to complete
Notice to landlord
Notification of sale
Occupancy restrictions
Occupier's rights
Off-plan
Office Copies
Official copy of land register
Official copy of lease
Official local authority search
On notice
Party walls
Personal local authority search
Personal representative
Plan search
Possessory title
Post completion
Power of Attorney
Pre-completion searches
Pre-contract deposit
Pre-contract enquiries
Priority of charges
Priority period
Priority search
Proof of Identity
Property Information Form
Protocol
Purchase deed
Radon gas
Railway search
Registered land
Registration
Rent to buy
Rentcharge
Report on title
Requisitions on title
Reservation fee
Restrictions
Restrictive covenant
Right of air
Right of light
Right of way
Right to buy
Root of title
Sale and leaseback
Sale of part
SDLT
SDLT relief
Search plan
Searches
Second charges
Sellers property information form
Separate Representation
Service charge
Shared ownership
Show home
Simultaneous exchange and completion
Sinking fund
Smoke control zone
Snagging
Solicitor
Special Conditions
Squatters
Stair-casing
Stamp Duty Land Tax
Statutory declaration
Stock transfer form
Structural Survey
Sub sale
TA10 Form
TA6 Form
Telegraphic Transfer (TT)
Tenancy Agreement
Tenancy in common
Term of the lease
Tin mining report
Title
Title insurance
Transaction at an undervalue insurance
Transaction documents
Transfer Deed
Tree preservation order
Trust deed
Trustee in bankruptcy
