No. 1 of 1844.
Notice of unregistered instrument not to affect registered instrument.
Period within which instruments to be registered after execution.
LAND REGISTRATION.
null and void to all intents and purposes: Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bonâ fide leases at rack rent for any term not exceeding three 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 as aforesaid as is duly registered.
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 twelve 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 twelve 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.
Delivery into Land Office of memorial of instrument to be registered,
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, except a will, by some or one of the parties to the original instrument, or, if such parties are dead or absent from the Colony, then by one or more of the witnesses to such instrument, and in the case of a will by some or one of the devisees or his guardian or trustees, and in the case of a judgment by a party to the action in which such judgment is delivered or by his agent or by a person claiming under or through such party.
* As amended by No. 24 of 1915.