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Distinction between legal and equitable estates

Nature of interest of a purchaser of land who takes possession by virtue of an unregistered registrable instrument

The principle that it is only a subsequent bonafide purchaser of a legal estate for value without notice that can take priority over someone who had acquired a prior equitable interest over the same property

Whether an equitable interest acquired by a purchaser who makes full or part payment of the purchase price and is put in possession can be overridden by a subsequent legal estate created by the same vendor or his legal representative in favour of another person

Whether an equitable interest will defeat the title of a subsequent purchaser of a legal estate

Whether legal and equitable estates are one and the same thing

Whether the distinction between legal and equitable interest applies under the Land Use Act

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