Residual Notices on a property register imply what about a buyer's knowledge?

• A. They create new rights
• B. They impute knowledge of interests that could have been discovered by usual searches and enquiries
• C. They require the seller to disclose all information
• D. They are irrelevant to notice

Answer: (B)

Residual notices act as a form of constructive notice in the land register. They alert a buyer that there may be interests affecting the land that could have been discovered through ordinary searches and enquiries. Because the notice is on the register, the buyer is deemed to know about those potential interests, even if they haven’t been personally told, and the due diligence expected in a typical transaction would have revealed them. This is why the correct choice says the notices impute knowledge of interests that could have been discovered by usual searches and enquiries. They don’t create new rights themselves, they don’t obligate the seller to reveal everything, and they’re not irrelevant because they affect what the buyer is assumed to know.