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CHAPTER IV OF MORTGAGES OF IMMOVEABLE PROPERTY AND CHARGES · Rights and liabilities of Mortgagee

Section 71: Renewal of mortgaged lease

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882

When the mortgaged property is a lease 1***, and the mortgagor obtains a renewal of the lease, the mortgagee, in the absence of a contract to the contrary, shall, for the purposes of the security, be entitled to the new lease.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The words “for a term of years” omitted by Act 20 of 1929, s. 36.

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