Western Australian Current Acts

PROPERTY LAW ACT 1969 - SECT 37

37 .         Power to dispose of fee simple by deed without words of inheritance

        (1)         A disposition of freehold land by deed to a person without words of limitation or any equivalent expression passes to the grantee the fee simple or other the whole interest that the disposer had power to dispose of by deed in that land, unless a contrary intention appears in the disposition.

        (2)         In the limitation of an estate in fee simple it is sufficient to use the words “in fee” or “in fee simple” without the use of the word “heirs” or in the case of a corporation without the word “successors”.

        (3)         A deed in or to the effect of a duly completed form in the Fourth Schedule is effectual to convey the land or the estate or interest in the land that is expressed to be conveyed by such deed.

        (4)         This section applies only to deeds executed after the coming into operation of this Act.