2 Rights In Completing Sale Of Land

2 In a contract for the sale of land and in an action on it, unless otherwise agreed, the rights and obligations of the vendor and purchaser are regulated by the following rules:

• (a) recitals of facts, statements and matters, and descriptions of parties in instruments or statutory declarations over 20 years old at the date of the contract are, unless the contrary is proved, sufficient evidence of their truth;
• (b) the inability of a vendor to give a purchaser a legal covenant to produce and furnish copies of documents of title is not an objection to the title if the purchaser has, on the completion of the contract, an equitable right to the production of the copies that affirmatively prove the purchaser’s title.

1979-340-2; 2023-10-897.