A.D. 1886.]
BILLS OF SALE.
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same person or persons,
(2.) The same rule of construction shall be applied to all deeds or instruments, including fixtures or growing crops, executed before the commencement of this Ordinance and then subsisting and in force, in all questions arising under any bankruptcy, liquidation, assignment for the benefit of creditors, or execution of any process of any Court, which takes place or is issued after the commencement of this Ordinance.
bill of sale
8. Every bill of sale shall be duly attested and shall be registered within seven clear days after the execution thereof, or, if it is executed in any place out of the Colony, then within seven clear days after the time at which it would, in the course of post, arrive in the Colony if posted immediately after the execution thereof, and shall truly set forth the consideration for which it was given; otherwise such bill of sale shall be void in respect of the personal chattels comprised therein.
Avoidance of
41 & 42 Vict. c. 31 s. 9.
9. Where a subsequent bill of sale is executed within or on the expiration of seven days after the execution of a prior unregistered bill of sale, and comprises all or any part of the personal chattels comprised in such prior bill of sale, then, if such subsequent bill of sale is given as a security for the same debt as is secured by the prior bill of sale or for any part of such debt, it shall, to the extent to which it is a security for the same debt or part thereof and so far as respects the personal chattels or part thereof comprised in the prior bill, be absolutely void, unless it is proved, to the satisfaction of the Court having cognizance of the case, that the subsequent bill of sale was bona fide given for the purpose of correcting some material error in the prior bill of sale, and not for the purpose of evading this Ordinance.
10.--(1.) A bill of sale shall be attested and registered under this Ordinance in the following manner:
(a.) the execution of the bill by the grantor shall be attested by one or more credible witness or witnesses, not being a party or parties thereto;
Mode of registering bill of sale.
45 & 46 Vict. c. 43 s. 10; 75. s. 10.
(b.) the bill, with every schedule or inventory thereto annexed or therein referred to, and also a true copy of the bill, and of every such schedule or inventory, and of every attestation of the execution of the bill, together with an affidavit of the time of the bill being made or given and of its due execution and attestation, and a description of the residence and occupation of the person making or giving the same (or, in case the same is made or given by any person under or in the execution of any process, then a description of the residence and occupation of the person against whom such process issued), and of every attesting witness to the bill shall be presented to, and the said copy and affidavit shall be
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