APPENDIX © 
Extract from Law of Property Act, 
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"SECTION 74 
(1) In favour of a purchaser a deed shall be deemed to have been 
duly executed by a corporation aggregate if its seal be affixed 
thereto in the presence of and attested by its clerk, secretary or 
other permanent officer or his deputy, and a member of the board 
of directors, council or other governing body of the corporation, 
and where a seal purporting to be the seal of a corporation has 
been affixed to a deed, attested by persons purporting to be 
persons holding such offices as aforesaid, the deed shall be deemed 
to have been executed in accordance with the requirements of 
this section, and to have taken effect accordingly. 
(2) The board of directors, council or other governing body of a 
corporation aggregate may, by resolution or otherwise, appoint an 
agent either generally or in any particular case, to execute on 
behalf of the corporation any agreement or other instrument not 
under seal in relation to anv matter within the powers of the cor- 
poration. 
(3) Where a person is authorised under a power of attorney or 
under any statutory or other power to convey any interest in 
property in the name or on behalf of a corporation sole or aggre- 
gate, he may as attorney execute the conveyance by signing the 
name of the corporation in the presence of at least one witness, 
and in the case of a deed by affixing his own seal, and such execu- 
tion shall take effect and be valid in like manner as if the corpora- 
tion had executed the conveyance. 
(4) Where a corporation aggregate is authorised under a power 
of attorney or under any statutory or other power to convey any 
interest in property in the name or on behalf of any other person 
(including another corporation), an officer appointed for that pur- 
pose by the board of directors, council or other governing body 
of the corporation by resolution or otherwise, may execute the 
deed or other instrument in the name of such other person; and 
where an instrument appears to be executed by an officer so 
appointed, then in favour of a purchaser the instrument shall be 
deemed to have been executed bv an officer dulv authorised 
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