Publications
Contracts for the Sale and Purchase of Land: Purchasers’ Remedies, Final Report 97
Under the present law of Alberta, specific performance of a contract for the sale and purchase of land will not be granted to the purchaser under the contract unless the land is unique in the sense that no substitute is readily available. In 1996, the Supreme Court of Canada, in Semelhago v Paramadevan, said that it is no longer the case that every piece of real estate is unique and that it therefore cannot be assumed […]
| AREA OF LAW | Corporate and Commercial Property Real Property |
| TAGS | paramadevan, real estate, remedies, contracts, purchaser, performance, supreme court, certificate, semelhago, Land, purchase, sale, title |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | fr97.pdf |
October 29, 2009
Towards a New Alberta Land Titles Act, Report for Discussion 8
This Report for Discussion accompanies the report of the Joint Land Titles Committee entitled Renovating the Foundation: Proposals for a Model Land Recording and Registration Act for the Provinces and Territories of Canada. The core of the Joint Committee’s report is a Model Land Recording and Registration Act. In this Report for Discussion we discuss some existing Alberta law and make some comparisons between it and the Model Act. We do so only to illuminate […]
| AREA OF LAW | Property Real Property |
| TAGS | certify, Torrens, recording, purchaser, fraud, interest, Land, registration, title |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | rfd8.pdf |
August 2, 1990