How registered titles are graded at HM Land Registry, and why the register's mirror is cracked by interests that bind a buyer without ever appearing on it.
A buyer who relies on the register alone can still be bound by rights it never reveals — that gap runs through everything in this chapter. It opens with the structure of the register, the mirror principle and the four classes of title, before turning to when a weaker class can be upgraded to absolute. It then examines overriding interests under the LRA 2002 — short legal leases, legal easements and, most significant of all, the interests of persons in actual occupation, together with the exceptions that stop occupation from binding a disponee. Finally it covers alteration and rectification of the register, the indemnity scheme that compensates for its mistakes, and the steps a buyer's solicitor takes to flush out hidden interests or insure against a defective class of title.
