Rule 187 – Incorporeal hereditaments held in gross

 (1) An applicant for registration of ownership of an incorporeal hereditament held in gross shall be registered as owner with an absolute title where title both to the grantee’s interest and to the grantor’s interest and to any superior or intermediate interest that may exist is approved by the Authority. 

(2) Where, immediately before the commencement of the Act, the registration of ownership of an incorporeal hereditament held in gross contained a note to the effect that the title of the grantor to make the grant has been investigated and found to be good, the title to the grantee’s interest shall be deemed to be an absolute title. Where there is no such note, the title shall be deemed to be a possessory title. 

(3) Where an incorporeal hereditament held in gross is granted by the owner of property registered with an absolute, possessory or qualified title, the title of the registered owner of such incorporeal hereditament shall be deemed to be likewise absolute, possessory or qualified, as the case may be. 

(4) The registration of a person as first registered owner of an incorporeal hereditament held in gross with a possessory title shall not affect or prejudice the enforcement of any right (whether in respect of the grantor’s title or otherwise) adverse to or in derogation of the title of the grantor or of that person and subsisting or capable of arising at the time of registration but, save as aforesaid, shall have the same effect as registration with an absolute title.