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PROPERTY LAW ACT 1969 - SECT 54

54 .         Realisation of equitable charges by the Court

        (1)         Where an order for sale is made by the Court in reference to an equitable mortgage on land the Court may, in favour of a purchaser, make a vesting order conveying the land or may appoint a person to convey the land, or may create and vest in the mortgagee a legal estate in the land to enable him to carry out the sale as the case requires, in like manner as if the mortgage had been made by deed by way of legal mortgage, but without prejudice to any encumbrance having priority to the equitable mortgage unless the encumbrancee consents to the sale.

        (2)         This section applies to equitable mortgages made or arising before or after the coming into operation of this Act.



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