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Hebb v Registrar of Titles

Court Supreme Court
Date 1982-11-29
Other citations (1982) – [1983] 3 W.W.R. 48 – 142 D.L.R. (3d) 729 (N.W.T. S.C.)
File numbers SC 6475
Judge(s) de Weerdt
Location Yellowknife
Cases and statutes considered Cases considered:
Seal v. Claridge (1881) 7 Q.B.D. 516
Re Parrot, ex p. Cullen (1891) 2 Q.B. 151
Edwards v. A.G. for Canada (1930) A.C. 124
A.G. v. Ernest Augustus (prince) of Hanover (1957) A.C. 436
MacMillan v. Dent (1907) 1 Ch. 107

Statutes considered:
Land Titles Act R.S.C. 1970, c. L-4
Bills of Sale Act, 1878, s. 8
Bills of Sale Ordinance, R.O.N.W.T. 1974, c. B-1
Northwest Territories Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. N-22
Decision information:

Abstract: Application to compel the registrar of a land titles to registrar a power of attorney where the sole attesting witness was the grantee.
Decision: Petition dismissed. The person in section 141 of the Land Titles Act must generally imply someone other than a party to the transaction to which the instrument related. Attorneys attesting the execution of the instrument under which they are empowered as such are not among those to be excepted.
Subjects: Real property - Registraton of interests in land
Keywords: Registration - power of attorney - intrument

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