48 Stipulations preventing a purchaser, lessee, or underlessee from employing his own solicitor to be void
Law of Property Act 1925 (1925 c 20) | Legislation

48  Stipulations preventing a purchaser, lessee, or underlessee from employing his own solicitor to be void

(1)     Any stipulation made on the sale of any interest in land after the commencement of this Act to the effect that the conveyance to, or the registration of the title of, the purchaser shall be prepared or carried out at the expense of the purchaser by a solicitor appointed by or acting for the vendor, and any stipulation which might restrict a purchaser in the selection of a solicitor to act on his behalf in relation to any interest in land agreed to be purchased, shall be void; and, if a sale is effected by demise or subdemise, then, for the purposes of this subsection, the instrument

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