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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-act-1881/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-act-1881/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/44-45/41",
  "legislation_title": "Conveyancing Act 1881",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-act-1881",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for simplifying and improving the practice of conveyancing: and for vesting in trustees, mortgagees, and others various powers commonly conferred by provisions inserted in settlements, mortgages, wills, and other instruments: and for amending in various particulars the law of property: and for other purposes.\n[22nd August 1881]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act may be cited as the Conveyancing Act 1881 under authority of Conveyancing Act 1911 (c. 37), s. 16(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Certain words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (c. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Words of enactment repealed by Law of Property Act 1925 (c. 20), s. 207, Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force from and after 31.12.1881"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/44-45/41/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:36.181717+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}