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Copy of Requisitions & Replies with Title Deeds
The Conveyancing Committee recommends that practitioners retain a copy of requisitions and replies with title deeds.
The committee notes that it is usual practice for purchasers’ solicitors to retain a copy of requisitions on title and replies with the title deeds to a property following completion of a transaction and lodge them with the lending institution in a certificate of title case. It also notes that the practice of some practitioners is to send the requisitions to the Land Registry along with the application for first registration. However, this means that the replies to requisitions in previous transactions on title are not readily available to the solicitor instructed in the next transaction.
The committee recommends that practitioners retain a copy of the requisitions and replies with the remaining documents of title in cases where the original requisitions and replies are lodged in the Land Registry with the original deeds grounding first registration.
