The Real Property Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,For a copy of this act, see A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Eighth and Ninth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Printed by George E Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. London. 1845. Pages 735 and 736. which regulated the transfer of land by sale.

Content Section 3 of the act stated that "a lease required by law to be in writing ... shall be void at law unless also made by deed".

Section 5 reversed a common law rule that a person could not take an immediate interest in land unless named in an indenture under seal.Now the Law of Property Act 1925, s 56

Section 6 stated that contingent interests were entirely alienable.

Conveyance of Real Property Act 1845

The act 8 & 9 Vict. c. 119, sometimes called the ,Table A. "Tables showing the Effect of the Year's Legislation". The Public General Acts passed in the Forty-Fourth and Forty-Fifth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1881. Queen's Printing Office, East Harding Street, London. 1881. Page 440. was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.For a copy of this act, see A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Eighth and Ninth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Printed by George E Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. London. 1845. Pages 835 and 836.

Subsequent developments Section 3 of the act, "save so far as same relates to Feoffments, Partitions, and Exchanges, repealed by section 104 of, and schedule (B.) to, the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment (Ireland) Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 154), which came into force on 1 January 1861..

Section 1 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 66), which came into force on 11 August 1875.

Section 8 of the act was repealed for England and Wales by section 10 of, and the tenth schedule to, the Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 5), which came into force on 1 January 1926.

Sections 2–7 and 9 of the act were repealed for England and Wales by section 207 of, and the seventh schedule to, the Law of Property Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 20), which came into force on 1 January 1926.

See also English land law

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