Rule 14 – Applications for first registration
Every application for first registration of ownership under the Act, except an application under Rules 17, 19(3), 19(4), 20(1), 21 or 22, shall be by application in Form 1 or 2, as the case may require.
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- ACC Bank plc change of name to ACC Loan Management Limited – Legal Office Notice No. 5 of 2014
- Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited and INBS – Legal Office Notice No. 7 of 2011
- Applications in Person – Legal Office Notice No. 5 of 2010
- Areas on Folios – Legal Office Notice No. 4 of 2012
- Asset Covered Securities Act 2001 –Legal Office Notice No. 2 of 2019
- Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited – Legal Office Notice No. 2 of 2014
- Bankruptcy Act 1988 – Legal Office Notice No. 5 of 2013
- Cases moving from Examiners’ Areas to Dealings Divisions – Legal Office Notice No. 3 of 2011
- Companies Act 1963 – (Section 352) – Legal Office Notice 29 September 1995
- Deeds of Charge Mortgage – Legal Office Notice No. 1 of 2012
- Easements and Profit-à-Prendre – Legal Office Notice No. 3 of 2006
- EBS Limited – Legal Office Notice No. 3 of 2014
- EC [Cross-Border Mergers] Regulations 2008 – Legal Office Notice No. 5 of 2009
- Family Home and Family Law Acts 2009 – Legal Office Notice No. 3 of 2009
- First Registration Applications Grounded on Form 1 or Form 2 – Legal Office Notice No. 9 of 2011
- Freezing Orders under Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act 1994 (as amended) – Legal Office Notice 24 November 1994
- GE Capital Woodchester Home Loans Limited – Change of Name – Legal Office Notice No. 1 of 2014
- Guidance Note for Solicitors on Termination of Re-Distribution of Fees Lodged – Legal Office Notice No. 9 of 2018
- IBRC Special Liquidation Order – Legal Office Notice No. 3 of 2013
- ICS Building Society and The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland– Legal Office Notice No. 7 of 2014
- Irish Church Act 1869 – Applications for Registration – Legal Office Notice No. 4 of 2006
- Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle [ICAV] – Legal Office Notice 2 of 2015
- Irish Land Act 2005 – Sections 12 and 45 repealed – Legal Office Notice No. 11 of 2005
- Irish Life and Permanent plc to Permanent TSB plc – Legal Office Notice No. 2 of 2012
- KBC Bank Ireland plc - Legal Office Notice No. 4 of 2010
- Land Certificates Return and Retention Policy – Legal Office Notice No. 1 of 2010
- Leases of Registered Land – Legal Office Notice No. 7 of 2006
- Leases Ranking after Charges – Legal Office Notice 1 of 2019
- Local Authorities – Dispositions by Local Authorities – Legal Office Notice No. 15 of 2006
- Local Authority – Prescribed Housing Loan Form – Legal Office Notice No. 10 of 2010
- Multi-storied Development Plans (updated December 2005) – Legal Office Notice No. 8 of 2005
- NAMA – Registration of National Asset Management Agency Acquisition Schedules – Legal Office Notice No. 2 of 2011
- NAMA Discharges – Legal Office Notice No. 4 of 2011
- National Irish Bank Limited to Danske Bank A/S – Legal Office Notice No. 4 of 2013
- National Monuments (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Section 19) – Legal Office Notice No. 1 of 2021
- Newbridge Credit Union Limited and Permanent TSB plc – Legal Office Notice No. 1 of 2020
- Partial Discharges (Stand Alone) – Legal Office Notice No. 5 of 2011
- Powers of Attorney Act, 1996 – Legal Office Notice No. 3 of 2010
- Powers of person entitled to be registered as owner of land or charge – Legal Office Notice No. 6 of 2006
- Property Adjustment Order LR – Legal Office Notice No. 2 of 2009
- Property Adjustment Order ROD – Legal Office Notice No. 1 of 2009
- Receivers – Deeds of Appointment – Legal Office Notice No. 6 of 2014
- Registration of Corporate Bodies – Land Registry Practice – Legal Office Notice 1 of 2017
- Registration of Deeds and Title Act – Legal Office Notice No. 14 of 2006
- Registration of Deeds Rules 2009 – Legal Office Notice No. 8 of 2009
- Stamp Duty – Legal Office Notice No. 2 of 2017
- Stamp Duty – Legal Office Notice No. 4 of 2014
- Status of Children Act 1987 – Legal Office Notice 16 September 1988
- Transfers Executed by both Receiver AND Chargee in Exercise of Power of Sale – Legal Office Notice 1 of 2015
- Trustees – Disposal of Land by Trustees pursuant to the Land Purchase Acts – Legal Office Notice No. 8 of 2002
- Ulster Bank Ireland Limited and First Active plc – Legal Office Notice No. 6 of 2010
- Ulster Bank Ireland Limited conversion to Ulster Bank Ireland DAC – Legal Office Notice No.1 of 2016
- Vesting Certificates (Ground Rents) – Legal Office Notice No. 10 of 2011
- Vesting Orders under Section 26 of the Courts Service Act 1998 – Legal Office Notice No. 6 of 2011
- Withdrawal of Name – Legal Office Notice No. 2 of 2007
- Zurich Bank change of name to Dunbar Assets Ireland – Legal Office Notice No. 1 of 2013
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- Rule 14 – Applications for first registration
- Rule 16 – Documents to accompany application for registration of ownership of leasehold interests
- Rule 15 – Documents to accompany application for registration of ownership of freehold property
- Rule 17 – Application for first registration based on possession
- Rule 18 – Examination of title
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- Rule 110A – Registration of judgment mortgage
- Rule 110B – Registration of judgment mortgage
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- Rule 112 – Notice of registration of judgment mortgage
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- Rule 114 – Cancellation of entry of judgment mortgage validly registered
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- Rule 122 – Form of caution, affidavit or certificate in support and notice
- Rule 123 – Warning notice to cautioner
- Rule 124 – Application by registered owner for discharge of caution
- Rule 125 – Procedure on appearance by cautioner to a warning notice
- Rule 126 – Withdrawal of caution or consent of cautioner to dealing
- Rule 127 – Lapse of caution
- Rule 128 – Form of inhibition
- Rule 129 – Entry of inhibition on consent
- Rule 130 – Application for inhibition where there is no consent
- Rule 131 – Procedure on application for inhibition
- Rule 132 – Procedure on objection to inhibition
- Rule 133 – Modification or discharge of registered inhibition
- Rule 134 – Application in anticipation of dealing inhibited without Authority’s order or approval
- Rule 135 – Procedure on lodgment of dealing inhibited without notice to specified persons
- Rule 136 – Inhibition under order of court
- Rule 137 – Entry of notice of certain burdens that affect without registration
- Rule 138 – Entry of notice of exemption from certain burdens under Section 72(2) of the Act
- Rule 139 – Entry of conclusiveness of a boundary of property
- Rule 140 – Entry of boundary ascertained by Land Judge’s conveyance
- Rule 141 – Entry of boundary by agreement
- Rule 142 – Settlement of boundary on transfer
- Rule 143 – Removal of description of infancy
- Rule 144 – Entry in register on conversion of a registered renewable lease
- Rule 145 – Limited Ownership
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- Rule 150 – Appointment of person to represent person of unsound mind
- Rule 151 – Lodgment of documents subject to lien
- Rule 152 – Documents that are to be retained in Registry and that may be delivered
- Rule 153 – Delivery of documents relating to unregistered property
- Rule 154 – Endorsement of documents delivered
- Rule 155 – Delivery of documents to solicitor for production in court or for taxation purposes
- Rule 156 – Transmission of documents to court
- Rule 157 – Application for transmission of document to a County Registrar
- Rule 158 – County Registrar custodian of document transmitted
- Rule 159 – Inspection of filed documents and obtaining copies thereof
- Rule 160 – Official search
- Rule 161 – Priority entry
- Rule 162 – Effect of priority entry
- Rule 163 – Priority where two or more priority entries are made
- Rule 164 – Solicitor or other person not liable for error in official search
- Rule 165 – Searches by public
- Rule 166 – Proceedings not to abate
- Rule 167 – Evidence in proceedings
- Rule 168 – Affidavits and statutory declarations in proceedings
- Rule 169 – Form of notices issued
- Rule 170 – Service of notices
- Rule 171 – Every notice served
- Rule 172 – Procedure on return of notice sent by post
- Rule 173 – Personal service of notice, summons or order
- Rule 174 – How questions determined
- Rule 175 – Summons by Authority
- Rule 176 – Powers of Authority under Sections 16 and 94 of the Act
- Rule 177 – Costs of proceedings before Authority
- Rule 178 – Enforcement of order for costs
- Rule 179 – Recording of decisions of Authority
- Rule 180 – Procedure on Appeals to Court
- Rule 181 – Reference of questions to court
- Rule 182 – General powers of Authority
- Rule 183 – Power to treat proceedings as abandoned
- Rule 184 – To whom application for compensation is to be made
- Rule 185 – Contents of application for compensation
- Rule 186 – Rights in land which may be registered
- Rule 187 – Incorporeal hereditaments held in gross
- Rule 188 – Application of the Act to incorporeal hereditaments held in gross
- Rule 189 – Application of the Act to rights other than incorporeal hereditaments held in gross
- Rule 190 – Exchanges under Section 46 of the Land Act, 1923
- Rule 191 – Effect of registration on exchange
- Rule 192 – Registration with possessory title
- Rule 193 – Notices to be given
- Rule 20 – Application by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for registration with possessory title
- Rule 21 – Application by local authority under statutory powers for first registration of purchaser
- Rule 22 – Documents to be lodged on registration procured by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Rule 23 – Transfers to registers of recorded property
- Rule 24 – Registration of recorded property
- Rule 25 – Entry of easement or profit à prendre as part of description of property registered
- Rule 26 – Property acquired under the Land Purchase Acts and on exchange
- Rule 27 – Notice of statutory restrictions
- Rule 28 – Entries relative to mines and minerals
- Rule 29 – Apartment, flat, floor, cellar, tunnel, mines and minerals, soil, subsoil, attic, airspace or foreshore
- Rule 30 – Form of caution against first registration and affidavit in support of it
- Rule 31 – Time for objection and form of notice on cautioner
- Rule 32 – Application where ownership registered 30 years
- Rule 33 – Application where ownership registered 12 years under transfer for value
- Rule 34
- Rule 35 – Other applications for conversion of possessory title
- Rule 36 – Examination of title to interests protected by registration with a possessory title
- Rule 37 – Conversion of registered title in cases under Section 50(2) of the Act
- Rule 38 – Notice, advertisement and enquiries before such conversions
- Rule 39 – Application for conversion of qualified title
- Rule 40 – Notice of intended conversion to be given
- Rule 41 – How burdens ascertained entered on conversion
- Rule 42 – How register made conformable with titles ascertained
- Rule 43 – Where deeds are deposited to create a lien
- Rule 44 – Other examinations of title outside register
- Rule 45 – Title to registered property acquired by possession
- Rule 46 – Acquisition of easements and profits by prescription
- Rule 47 – Form of affidavit of discovery
- Rule 48 – First registration of tenants in common
- Rule 49 – First registration of trustee owner
- Rule 50 – Notice to be given of proposed registration
- Rule 51 – Date of registration
- Rule 52 – Form of instruments
- Rule 53 – Applications or instruments in improper form
- Rule 54 – Evidence of execution of instruments
- Rule 55 – Evidence of execution of instrument by attorney
- Rule 56 – Identification of part of registered property transferred
- Rule 57 – Presentation of dealing for registration
- Rule 58 – Priority of dealings received for registration
- Rule 59 – Notice in register of pending registration
- Rule 60 – Date of registration
- Rule 61 – Amendment of instrument and priority of amended instrument
- Rule 62 – Stamp certificate issued by Revenue Commissioners
- Rule 63 – Registration of a tenant in common
- Rule 64 – Registration of trustee owner
- Rule 65 – Application by registered owner for amendment
- Rule 66 – Application for registration of trustees
- Rule 67 – Forms of transfer
- Rule 68 – Form of lease
- Rule 69 – Registration of transferee who is a trustee
- Rule 70 – Registration under a transfer or vesting order on sale in execution of order of court
- Rule 71 – Effect of covenant to pay rent or indemnify may be noted in register
- Rule 72 – Registration of purchaser from personal representative of owner discharged from judgment mortgage on interest of beneficiary
- Rule 73 – Registration under grant reserving rent
- Rule 74 – Registration of companies
- Rule 75 – Registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner
- Rule 76 – Notice of application for registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner
- Rule 77 – Cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner
- Rule 78 – Notice of cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner
- Rule 79 – Registration of transfer under power of sale
- Rule 80 – Registration of trustees or assignees of bankrupt owner and re-registration of the owner
- Rule 81 – Registration of transferee of local authority under statute
- Rule 82 – Registration of local authority under statute
- Rule 83 – Registration of dispositions of recorded property
- Rule 84 – Registration of new trustee of friendly society
- Rule 85 – Application for registration where registered owner died prior to 1st June, 1959
- Rule 86 – Assent by personal representative(s) on death testate to registration of person entitled; application of person entitled for registration
- Rule 87 – Transfer by personal representative(s) on death testate to person entitled
- Rule 88 – Application for registration by a person, other than the personal representative(s) entitled on intestacy
- Rule 89 – Application for registration by personal representative entitled on intestacy
- Rule 90 – Application for registration on death of person entitled but not registered as owner
- Rule 91 – Transmission on death of owner of charge or other burden
- Rule 92 – Note of death of registered owner
- Rule 93 – Application for registration of successor of limited owner
- Rule 94 – Application for registration by survivor or survivors of joint tenants
- Rule 95 – Registration pursuant to court order
- Rule 96 – The assent to registration of burdens that is to be given by persons other than the owner
- Rule 97 – How assent to registration of burden is to be given
- Rule 98 – How burden may be entered
- Rule 99 – Note in register where statutory priority for burden claimed
- Rule 100 – Instrument creating two or more burdens and priority thereof
- Rule 101 – Evidence on which a burden may be cancelled or modified
- Rule 102 – Application for cancellation of charge by electronic means
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