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PROPERTY LAW ACT 1969 - SECT 19

19 .         Suits for possession of land by mortgagors

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2) a mortgagor entitled for the time being to the possession or receipt of the rents and profits of any land, as to which no notice of his intention to take possession or to enter upon the receipt of the rents and profits thereof has been given by the mortgagee, may sue for that possession, or for the recovery of those rents or profits, or to prevent or to recover damages in respect of any trespass or other wrong relative thereto, in his own name only, unless the cause of action arises upon a lease or other contract made by him jointly with any other person.

        (2)         This section does not apply to a mortgagor or a mortgage to which section 117 of the Transfer of Land Act 1893 applies.



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