General words in conveyances of land or buildings
(1) A conveyance of land shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Act operate to convey with the land all buildings, erections, fixtures, commons, hedges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, profits à prendre, rights, and advantages whatsoever appertaining to the land or any part thereof, at the time of conveyance. (2) A conveyance of land having houses or other buildings thereon shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Act operate to convey with the land, houses, or other buildings, all outhouses, erections, fixtures, cellars, areas, courts, courtyards, cisterns, sewers, gutters, drains, ways, passages, lights, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, profits à prendre, rights, and advantages whatsoever appertaining to the land, houses, or other buildings conveyed, or any of them, or any part thereof, at the time of conveyance. (3) This section applies only if and as far as a contrary intention is not expressed in the conveyance, and shall have effect subject to the terms of the conveyance and to the provisions therein contained. (4) This section shall not be construed as giving to any person a better title to any property, right or thing in this section mentioned than the title which the conveyance gives to the person to the land expressed to be conveyed, or as conveying to the person any property, right, or thing in this section mentioned further or otherwise than as the same could have been conveyed to the person by the conveying parties. (5) This section applies only to conveyances made after the commencement of this Act of land other than land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900.
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