Legal knowledge that a person is deemed to have because information is publicly registered or reasonably available, even if they did not actually know it.
Constructive notice is the legal fiction that a person is deemed to know something that is publicly registered or that would be discovered by reasonable inquiry — even if they did not actually conduct that inquiry. The Deeds Registry creates constructive notice of all registered rights in property. A buyer of land is deemed to know of all registered servitudes, bonds, and restrictions — they cannot claim ignorance of registered encumbrances.
A buyer purchases a property without checking the deeds. The property is subject to a registered servitude (right of way). The buyer is deemed to have constructive notice of the servitude and cannot refuse to honour it.
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