Where legal owners of Torrens title land execute a transfer of the fee simple as a gift but subsequently execute a deed granting only a life estate, the grant of the life estate is inconsistent with the continuation of an intention to gift the fee simple. Solicitors holding the certificate of title for the transferors have authority only for the specific purpose for which it was obtained, and cannot use it to register a different transfer without further instructions from the transferors.
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