Deletion of General Condition 25 from Contract for Sale
Conveyancing
07/06/2019
The Conveyancing Committee does not agree with the routine deletion of General Condition 25 from the standard contract for sale and also advises solicitors to look carefully at the execution of completion documentation before agreeing to close.
In the specific case of a receiver sale or a bank selling as mortgagee, any post-closing query regarding execution (including witnessing where necessary) of documents can only be dealt with by referring those queries back to the receiver or the bank in question. For this reason, purchasers should resist the deletion of General Condition 25.