Execution of Deeds and Documents

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1. Deeds, Consents, Applications

Execution:

Section 64 of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 abolishes the need for sealing by an individual (but not for companies) and abolishes the rule that authority to deliver a deed has to be given in the deed. A document is identified as a deed by using the appropriate description or wording e.g. Assignment, Conveyance, Charge, Deed, Indenture, Lease, Mortgage, Surrender or other appropriate heading.

The Act sets out the specific requirements for execution as follows: The deed is to be executed in the following manner:

• If made by an individual, signed by the individual in the presence of a witness who attests the signature or signed by a person at the individual’s direction given in the presence of a witness who attests the signature, or the individual’s signature is acknowledged by him or her in the presence of a witness who attests the signature.
• If made by a company registered in the State, it is executed under the seal of the company in accordance with its Articles of Association.
• If made by a body corporate registered in the State other than a company, it is executed in accordance with the legal requirements governing execution of deeds by such body corporate.
• If made by a foreign...