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Title insurance and the new boundary reality
In the early 1990s, title insurance was introduced to the Canadian real estate market, offering lenders, lawyers and homebuyers insurance against title defects, off-title building code infractions, mortgage and title fraud, as well as many property boundary defects that would otherwise have been revealed in an up-to-date land survey plan....
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How easements affect private property rights
You may be king of your castle, but do you have sole dominion over your land? The answer is ‘no’ if your property is subject to easement rights that allow another party to use part of your land or access services that cross it....
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Honesty, good faith & the survey plan
A new development in Canadian common law will continue to play out in the business and legal worlds this year, with significant and far-reaching implications for all contractual agreements in Canada, including those that govern real estate transactions....
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