THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1882.
•
Ordinance, and with all parties having any estate or interest in such lands, or by this Ordinance enabled to sell and assign the same, for the absolute purchase for a consideration in money of any such lands, or such parts thereof as they shall think proper, and of all estates and interests in such lands of what kind soever.
67. It shall be lawful for all parties, being seized, possessed of, or entitled to, any such lands, or any estate or interest therein, to sell and assign or release the same to the Company, and to enter into all necessary agreements for that purpose, and particularly it shall be lawful for all, or any, of the following parties, so seized, possessed, or entitled, as aforesaid, so to sell, assign or release (that is to say) all corporations, tenants in tail, or for life, married women seized in their own right, guardians, committees of lunatics, and idiots, trustees in trust for charitable or other purposes, executors and administrators, and all parties, for the time being entitled to the receipt of the rents and profits of any such lands in possession, or subject to any lease for life, or for lives and.years, or for years, or any less interest; and the power so to sell and assign or release as aforesaid may lawfully be, exercised by all such parties, not only on behalf of themselves and their respective heirs, executors, administrators and successors, but also for and on behalf of every person entitled in reversion, remainder, or expectancy after them, or in defeasance of the estates of such parties, and, as to such married women, whether they be of full age or not, as if they were sole, and of full age, and as to such guardians on behalf of their wards, and as to such committees on behalf of the lunatics and idiots of whom they are the committees respectively, and that to the same extent as such wives, wards, lunatics and idiots, respectively, could have exercised the same power under the authority of this Ordinance, if they had respectively been under no disability, and as to such trustees, executors and administrators, on behalf of their cestuique trusts, whether infants, issue unborn, lunatics, femes covert, or other persons, and that to the same extent as such cestuique trusts respectively could have exercised the same powers under the authority of this Ordinance if they had respectively been under no disability.
68. The power to release lands from any rent-charge, or incumbrance, and to agree for the apportionment of any such rent-charge or incumbrance shall extend to, and may lawfully be exercised by, every party hereinbefore enabled to sell and assign, or release, lands to the Company.
69. The purchase money or compensation to be paid for any lands to be purchased or taken from any party under any disability or incapacity and not having power to sell or assign such lands except under the provisions of this Ordinance, and the compensation (if any) to be paid for any permanent damage or injury to any such lands, shall, where such purchase money and compensation shall together not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, be determined by a Judge in Summary Jurisdiction in man- ner hereinafter provided for the determination of monies · or compensation not exceeding one thousand dollars to be paid for the purchase of lands otherwise than by agree- ment, and, where such purchase money and compensation shall together exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, the same shall be determined by the said Chief Justice in manner hereinafter provided for the determination of money or compensation exceeding one thousand dollars to be paid for the purchase of lands otherwise than by agreement, and all purchase money and compensation recovered under or by virtue of this section shall be deposited in the Bank or otherwise applied for the benefit of the parties interested in manner hereinafter mentioned.
Purchase of lands otherwise than by agreement, 70. When the Company shall require to purchase or take any of the lands more particularly mentioned and set out in Schedule D. to this Ordinance, they shall give notice thereof to all the parties interested in such lands, or to the parties enabled by this Ordinance to sell and assign or release the same, or such of the said parties as shall, after diligent enquiry, be known to the Company, and by such notice shall demand from such parties the particulars of their estate and interest in such lands, and of the claims made by them in respect thereof; and every such notice shall state the particulars of the lands so required, and that the Company are willing to treat for the purchase thereof,
Partica under disability enabled to sell and assign.
Parties under disability
to exercise other powers.
Compensation where parties are under disability.
Notice of intention to take lands.
961