1902
No. 34 of 1910.
Land Officer to be Commissioner to take acknowledgments.
No. 5 of 1885. Rights and things included in NEW TERRITORIES.
33. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Land Officer and every Assistant Land Officer shall be deemed to be a duly appointed commissioner for taking acknowledgments of married women under the Married Women's (Disposition of Property) Ordinance, 1885.
34. (1) A conveyance shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Ordinance operate to convey, with the land, all buildings, erections, fixtures, commons, hedges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, water-courses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights and advantages whatsoever, appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land, or any part thereof, or at the time of conveyance demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to, the land or any part thereof.
Conveyance to be in prescribed forms.
(2) A conveyance of land, having houses or other buildings thereon, shall be deemed to include, and shall by virtue of this Ordinance operate to convey, with the land, houses or other buildings, all outhouses, erections, fixtures, cellars, areas, courts, court-yards, cisterns, sewers, gutters, drains, ways, passages, lights, water-courses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights and advantages whatsoever, appertaining, or reputed to appertain to the land, houses, or other buildings conveyed or any of them or any part thereof, or at the time of conveyance demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to, the land, houses, or other buildings conveyed, or any of them or any part thereof.
(3) This section applies only if and as far as a contrary intention is not expressed in the conveyance and shall have effect subject to the terms of the conveyance and the provisions therein contained.
(4) This section shall not be construed as giving to any person a better title to any property, right, or thing in this section mentioned than the title which this section gives to him to the land expressed to be conveyed, or as conveying to him any property, right, or thing in this section mentioned further or otherwise than as the same could have been conveyed to him by the conveying parties.
35. Every conveyance executed after the commencement of this Ordinance shall be made according to one of the forms set out in the 3rd schedule with such variations as circumstances may require. The Land Officer may prescribe such other forms as he may deem necessary for facilitating dealings with land.
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.