No. 1 of 1844.
LAND REGISTRATION.
Priority of registered instruments; effect of non-registration.
3. --(1) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, made, executed, or obtained in pursuance hereof, shall have priority one over the other according to the priority of their respective dates of registration.
(2) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, as last aforesaid which are not registered shall (as against any subsequent bona fide purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration of the same parcels of ground, tenements, or premises) be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes : Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bona fide leases at rack rent for any term not exceeding 3 years.
4. No notice whatsoever, either actual or constructive, of any prior unregistered deed, conveyance, or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment, shall affect the priority of any such instrument duly registered as aforesaid.
5. All deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, which are duly registered within the respective times next mentioned, that is to say, all deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing (except wills) which, if executed in this Colony, are registered within one month, or which, if executed in any other place, are registered within 12 months, after the time of execution thereof respectively, and all wills which, if the devisor dies in this Colony are registered within one month, or which, if the devisor dies in any other place, are registered within 12 months, after the decease of every devisor respectively, and all judgments which are registered within one month after the entering up or recording thereof, shall severally be in like manner entitled to priority, and shall take effect respectively by relation to the date thereof only in the same manner as if this Ordinance had not been passed.
Mode of registration.
6. The registration intended by this Ordinance shall be made in manner following, that is to say, a memorial containing the particulars hereinafter specified shall be delivered into the Land Office, signed, in the case of a deed, conveyance, or other instrument in writing.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911.
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