1 Deeds and their execution
Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (1989 c 34) | Legislation

1  Deeds and their execution

(1)     Any rule of law which—

(a)     restricts the substances on which a deed may be written;

(b)     requires a seal for the valid execution of an instrument as a deed by an individual; or

(c)     requires authority by one person to another to deliver an instrument as a deed on his behalf to be given by deed,

is abolished.

(2)     An instrument shall not be a deed unless—

(a)     it makes it clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed by the person making it or, as the case may be, by the parties to it (whether by describing itself as a deed or expressing itself to be executed or signed as a deed or otherwise); and

(b)     it is validly executed as a deed—

[(i)     by that person or a person authorised to execute it in the name or on behalf of that person, or

(ii)

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