NEW TERRITORIES.
No. 34 of 1910.
1901
to the Land Officer by the successor, but no probate fees or probate No. 2 of 1897. duties shall be payable, anything in the Probates Ordinance, 1897, to the contrary notwithstanding. The registered successor shall be liable to the debts of the deceased in the same manner and to the same extent as if a grant of probate or administration had been made to him. This section shall apply in the case of a death whether occurring before or after the commencement of this Ordinance. Provided always that if a grant of probate or administration of the estate of the deceased is made by the Supreme Court within the period above specified the grantee therein named shall be registered as the successor and the fees prescribed in this section shall not be payable.
appoint.
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30. Whenever any land is vested in a minor it shall be lawful for Power to the Land Officer to appoint some fit person to be a trustee thereof trustees for for such minor during his minority, and to remove any such trustee minors, and to appoint any new trustee. Every such appointment shall be registered by the Land Officer in the appropriate office, and upon registration the land the subject of the trust shall vest in the registered trustee for all the estate and interest of the minor therein, and upon registration of the removal of any trustee the land shall divest from the trustee so removed, and vest in the continuing trustee or any newly registered trustee as the case may be. The Land Officer before registering a trustee may require him to give security in such manner and to such amount as he may think fit for the due execution of the trust. With the consent of the Land Officer a trustee may buy, sell, mortgage, lease, or otherwise deal with or dispose of any property to the like extent as if he were the beneficial owner thereof, anything in the Trustee Ordinance, 1901, No. 5 of 1901. to the contrary notwithstanding.
of memorials.
31. For the purposes of this Ordinance it shall not be necessary Certification for a memorial of any deed, will, or other instrument to be verified upon oath, but every memorial shall in lieu thereof be certified by the Land Officer as correct.
32. It shall not be necessary for the Land Officer to keep an index Land Officer of names of the several parties to deeds and other instruments, or of to keep not required the devisors or devisees in the case of wills, or of the plaintiffs or defendants in the case of judgments.
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 13 of 1912.
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