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No. 7 of 1886.
BILLS OF SALE.
Order for
of satisfac-
tion of bill of sale.
2. Where this consent cannot be obtained, the Registrar may, memorandum on application by summons, and on hearing the person entitled to the benefit of the bill of sale or on affidavit of service of the summons on that person, and in either case on proof, to the satis-
R.S.C. 1937.
faction of the Registrar, that the debt, if any, for which the bill of sale was made has been satisfied or discharged, order a memorandum of satisfaction to be written upon a registered copy thereof.
O. 61 r. 27.
Rule where attesting
witness is a solicitor.
Practice
Masters'
Rules, 1921, r. 25.
3. If the attesting witness and deponent is a solicitor, and described as such, the entry of the satisfaction will be directed by the Registrar (the papers being otherwise correct) as of course; but in special circumstances the Registrar may accept any other deponent, if satisfied that he is a proper person to attest and verify the signature and consent.
[Originally No. 13 of 1886.]
No. 8 of 1886.
An Ordinance to amend the law as to sales of land by public
auction.
[12th July, 1886.]
Short title.
30 & 31 Vict.
c. 48, s. 1.
Interpreta-
tion.
30 & 31 Vict.
c. 48, s. 3.
Rule respect-
ing sales without
reserve.
30 & 31 Vict. c. 48, s. 5.
WHEREAS it is desirable to assimilate the law of the Colony relating to the sale of land by public auction to the law of England on the same subject:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sale of Land by Auction Ordinance, 1886.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "Auctioneer"
means any person selling by public auction any land, whether in lots or otherwise.
(b) "Land" means any interest in any messuages, lands, or tenements of whatever tenure within the Colony.
3. (1) The particulars or conditions of sale by auction of any land shall state whether such land will be sold without reserve, or subject to a reserved price, or whether a right to bid is reserved.
(2) If it is stated that such land will be sold without reserve or to that effect, then it shall not be lawful for the seller to employ any person to bid at such sale or for the auctioneer to take knowingly any bidding from any such person.