THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TM DECEMBER, - 1836.
under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening or shall follow or be after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the subscribing witnesses, or by the circumstance that the signature shall be on a side or page or other portion of the paper or papara containing the will whereon no clause or paragraph or dis- posing part of the will shall be written above the signature, or by the circumstance that there shall appear to be sulli- cient space on or at the bottom of the preceding side or page or other portion of the same paper on which the will is written to contain the signature; and the emmeration of the above circumstances shall not restrict the generality of the above enactment: but no signature under the Prin- cipal Act or this Ordinance shall be operative to give cflect to any disposition or direction which is underneath or which follows it, nor shall it give effect to any disposition er de rection inserteil, after the signature shall be made.
5. The preceding provisions of this Ordinance shal: ex tend and be applied to every will made prior to the 31st Oc tober, 1804, and taking effect in the Colony, administration to which or probate of which had not up to that date beer granted or ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or where the property not being within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court has not been possessed or enjoyed by some person or persons claiming to be entitled thereto in conso- quence of the defective excention of such will, or the right thereto shall not have been decided to be in some other person or persons than the persons claiming under the will, by a Court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective excention of such will, and to overy will mado since the 1st of October, 1854.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 3rd day of December, 1886.
ARATHOON SETU, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 14th day of December, 1886.
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Curtain wit arendy tanda, 15 & 16 Vie. c. 24, 9. 3.)
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W. H. MARSII.
FREDERICK STEWART,
deting Colonial Secretary.
No. 29 or 1886.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled An Ordinance relating to Bills of Lading.
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[14th December, 1886.]
HEREAS it is expedient that Ordinance No. 2 of 1856 should be re-enacted with certain amendments: Be it enneled by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
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1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Bills of Lading Ordinance, 1886.”
2. Ordinance No. 2 of 1856 is hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect the past operation of the said Ordi- Hance nor anything done or suffered thereunder.
3. Every consigneo of goods named in a Bill of Lading, and every endorsec of a Bill of Lading to whom the property in the foods therein mentioned shall pass, upon or by reason of such consignment or endorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and bo subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods, as if the contract contained in the Bill of Lading had been made with himself.
4. Nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any right of stoppage in transit, or any right to claim freight against the original shipper or owner, or any liability of the consiguce or endorsee by reason or in consequence of his being such consignce, or endorsee, or of his receipt of the goods by reason or in consequence of such consignment or endorsement.
Short file.
Itepoal.
Wights under Mills of Lading to yeas la cosignes or endorsen, (18 10 Vic. c. 111, s. 1.)
Not to afteol right of stoppage In
trasaltu or clabus for freight.
8 & 19 Vie
2. 1, m.)
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