actual notice

From: A Dictionary of Law | Date: 2002| Author: ELIZABETH A. MARTIN | Copyright information

actual notice Knowledge that a person has of rights adverse to his own. If a purchaser of unregistered land has actual notice of an interest that is not required to be registered as a land charge, and which will not be overreached on the sale to him, he wi...

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