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Thank you for this informative article, and you touch on an issue that concerns me, which is that I cannot see any basis for arguing that CRL is within the scope of land registration as defined in section 2 of the 2002 Act. This means that there is no authority for the registration of notices or cautions against first registration.
Section 1(2)(d) of the Law of Property Act 1925 originally included tithe rentcharges as a legal interest or charge on land but this was repealed and so this subsection now reads "...and any other similar charge on land not created by an instrument." You would not argue that CRL is a charge on land as defined in section 1(2)(d) so it is either an equitable interest, taking effect under a trust of land excluded by section 33 of the 2002 Act from registration, or (more likely) it is not an interest in land at all. I would argue that the Chancel Repairs Act 1932 ensured that it is no more than a thing in action, which not an interest in land. Therefore there is no authority for CRL to be registered. In all the reported cases on CRL the judges have said that CRL is not a charge on land, it is a personal claim against the lay rector only.

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