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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-of-property-act-1925/schedule-FIRST/part-IV/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/20",
  "legislation_title": "Law of Property Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-of-property-act-1925",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/part/IV/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, there are two or more tenants for life of full age entitled under the same settlement in undivided shares, and, after the cesser of all their interests in the income of the settled land, the entirety of the land is limited so as to devolve together (not in undivided shares), their interests shall, but without prejudice to any beneficial interest, be converted into a joint tenancy, and the joint tenants and the survivor of them shall, until the said cesser occurs, constitute the tenant for life for the purposes of the Settled Land Act, 1925, and this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Para. 4 added by Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1926 (c. 11), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1925 c. 18."
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:09.274032+00:00"
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  "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."
}