Manorial Rights - Register Them Or Risk Losing Them!

Certain rights over land, such as sporting rights and rights to mines or minerals forming part of the lordship title - known as manorial rights - will have to be registered before 13 October 2013 or they will be lost on a subsequent sale of the land to which they relate. Manorial rights are a type of "overriding interest", that is, an interest in land which, until now, has not usually required registration against the title at the Land Registry but has been protected by law so as to be binding on purchasers of the land, even if they do not know of their existence. However, on and after 13 October 2013, certain types of overriding interest, including manorial rights, must actually be registered at the Land Registry, otherwise they will be lost when the relevant land is next sold.