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ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG.
1844.
No. 1 of 1844.
To provide for the registration of deeds, conveyances, wills, and judgments affecting real or immovable property.
[28th Feb., 1844.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent secret and fraudulent conveyances, and to provide means whereby the title to real and immovable property may be easily traced and ascertained :-
1. The Land Registration Ordinance, 1844.
Short title.
2. The Land Office shall be a public office for the registration of deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments; and all deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills, and all judgments, by which deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, any parcels of ground, tenements, or premises in this Colony, may be affected, may be entered and registered in the said office in the manner hereinafter directed.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911.
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