A.D. 1886.]
BILLS OF SALE.
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separately assigned or charged) fixtures and growing crops, but does not include fixtures (except trade machinery as hereinafter defined) when assigned together with any interest in any land or building to which they are affixed, or growing crops when assigned together with any interest in the land on which they grow, or shares or interests in the stock, funds, or securities of any Government or in the capital or property of incorporated or joint stock companies, or choses in action, or any stock or produce upon any farm or lands which, by virtue of any covenant or agreement, ought not to be removed from any farm where the same are at the time of making or giving of such bill of sale:
Personal chattels shall be deemed to be in the apparent possession of the person making or giving a bill of sale, so long as they remain or are in or upon any house, mill, warehouse, building, works, yard, land, or other premises occupied by him, or are used and enjoyed by him in any place whatsoever, notwithstanding that formal possession thereof may have been taken by or given to any other person:
“The Registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court or his deputy:
"Affidavit" includes any affirmation or declaration of any person by law allowed to make an affirmation or declaration in lieu of an affidavit:
"Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under the provisions 41 & 12 Vict. c. 31 s. 4. of this Ordinance.
3. This Ordinance shall apply to every bill of sale executed after the commencement of this Ordinance (whether the same is absolute or subject or not subject to any trust), whereby the holder or grantee has power, either with or without notice and either immediately or at any future time, to seize or take possession of any personal chattels within the Colony comprised in or made subject to such bill of sale.
4. Any renewal after the commencement of this Ordinance of the registration of a bill of sale executed before the commencement of this Ordinance, and duly registered according to law, shall be made under this Ordinance in the same manner as the renewal of a registration made under this Ordinance.
Renewal of existing bills of sale.
the Ordinance to trade machinery.
5.-(1.) From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, trade machinery shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be personal chattels, and any mode of disposition of trade machinery by the owner thereof which would be a bill of sale as to any other personal chattels shall be deemed to be a bill of sale within the meaning of this Ordinance.