Section 47 — Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW)

(1) In a deed it shall be sufficient in the limitation of an estate in fee simple to use the words in fee or fee simple without the word heirs, or in the case of a corporation sole without the word successors, or to use the words in tail or in tail male or in tail female, without the words heirs of the body, or heirs male of the body, or heirs female of the body.
(2) Where land is conveyed to or to the use of any person without words of limitation, such conveyance shall be construed to pass the fee simple or other the whole estate or interest the person conveying had power to dispose of by deed in such land unless a contrary intention appears by such conveyance.
(3) This section applies only to deeds executed after the commencement of this Act.

Related sections

• s 45 — Grant of easements etc by way of use
• s 45A — Reservation of easements etc in conveyances of land
• s 46 — In conveyance use of word grant unnecessary
• s 50 — Rights of entry etc
• s 51A — Execution of instruments by or on behalf of corporations
• s 52 — Application of Part 4 to land under Real Property Act 1900

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