Commentary on the Sections Registration as proprietor Section 58: Conclusiveness
105.A fundamental principle of registered conveyancing has always been that registration vests the legal estate in the registered proprietor. Section 58 provides for the continuation of that principle so that if, for example, a person is registered as proprietor on the strength of a forged transfer, the legal estate would nevertheless vest in the transferee by virtue of registration. Subsection (2) is designed to prevent subsection (1) overriding the rule in relation to registrable dispositions that a disposition only operates at law when all the relevant registration requirements have been met (i.e. entry of the disponee in the register as proprietor may not always be the only requirement). The legal estate will not vest in the transferee until all of the appropriate requirements for registration set out in Schedule 2 have been met.