Mortgage to two or more jointly.
Construction
of implied
Covenants.
Covenant to be annexed to estate.
Covenants to extend to successors, &c.
Implied cov. enant nia y be varied.
Provision for
&c.
588
48. Where any mortgage made under this Ordinance is expressed to be made to more persons than one jointly and not in shares, the mortgage money shall be deemed to be owing to such persons on a joint account, and the receipt of the survivor, or his or her successors or personal repre- sentatives, shall be a complete discharge for that amount.
49. In the construction of a covenant, or a proviso, or other provision implied in a dead by virtue of this Ordin- ance words importing the singular or plural number or the masculine gender shall be read as also importing the plural or singular number, or the feminine gender, as the caso may require.
50. The benefit of a covenant implied by this Ordin- ance shall be annexed and incident to, and shall go with, the estate or interest of the implied covenantce, and shall be capable of being enforced by any person in whom that estate or interest is, for the whole or any part thereof, from time to time vested.
51. Every covenant, whether expressed or implied, shall be deemed to be made with the covenantee, bis successors, executors, administrators and assigns, and shall have effect as if successors, excentors, administrators and assigns were expressed.
52. Any covenant or provision implied by this Ordin- ance may be varied or extended by deed, and as so varied and extended shall as far as may be operate in the like manner and with all the like incidents, effects and conse- quences as if such variations and extensions were directed in this Ordinance to be implied.
53 Every Conveyance, except a Conveyance by way of all the estate, lense, shell by virtue of this Ordinance be effectual to pass all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand which the conveying parties respectively have in, or to, or on the property so conveyed or expressed or intended to be so conveyed, or which they respectively have power to con- vey in, or to, or on the same.
Power for
Governor-in
Council to
make regnl
ations.
Recovery of fees.
Certified copics receivable
in evidence.
Ordinance not to affect Crown, &c.
Jurisdiction
54. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time as he may think fit to make regulations for the purposes of this Ordinance, and particularly of fixing the tees to be paid thereunder and of providing for the recovery of Crown Rent by distint or other proceedings. The said regulations shall be published in the Gazette in both the English and Chinese languages, and shall there- upon be as valid as if inserted in this Ordinance.
55. Any fees payable in virtue of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary way before a Magistrate.
56. A copy of or extract from any document in the custody of the Land Officer shall, if certified by the Land Officer to be correct, be admissible in evidence in all Courts to the same extent as the original document would be admissible.
57. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the interests of the Crown, or to confer a larger right in relation to any land than is granted in the Crown Lease, grant or licence whereunder the said land is hold; and no liability shall attach to the Land Officer, or to any Assistant Land Offcer, or to the Government of the Colony, or to the Crown, in respect of any act done, or entry made by such Land Officer or Assistant Land Officer in the course of his duty,
PART III,
Small Debts Court.
58. It shall be lawful for a Magistrate (to be authorised for the purpose by the Governor by notification publi- shed in the Gazette) to hold a Small Debts Court in such place in the New Territories (exclusive of New