DUTIES OF LAND AGENTS.
ASCERTAINING TRUE NATURE OF TITLES.
WELLINGTON, July 31. The duties of land agents, when acting for people who are unversed in business, were outlined by Mr E. Page, S.M., in the course of a judgment delivered in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. “There is a duty on land agents to ascertain the true nature of the title under which the property is held and not to allow their principals to become entangled in an acceptance which, may bind them to make a title in fee simple when in reality they may hold, only under agreement,” he said. “Lay people unacquainted with land tenures often do not know the difference, but a land agent knows, dr ought to know, and and ought to see that his principal is advised accordLss
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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 76
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132DUTIES OF LAND AGENTS. Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 76
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