Where a contract for sale of land contains special conditions that are dependent on another condition for their identification or operation, deletion of the identifying condition renders the dependent conditions inoperative. The definite article 'the' in 'the caveats' has a specifying or particularising effect and cannot be read as 'any caveats'. A vendor's implied obligation to take all reasonable steps to ensure completion may extend to seeking Supreme Court orders under s 74MA of the Real Property Act 1900 to prohibit the lodgement of further caveats by the same caveator.
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