LAND REGISTRATION.

No. 1 of 1844.

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if any, and the date of payment or other satisfaction of the amount bona fide due thereon, if any.

(2) Every such certificate shall be verified by the oath of some competent person that the same contains a just and true account of the several particulars therein set forth, which oath shall be made and taken before any justice of the peace.

(3) On the back of such verified certificate the Land Officer shall immediately indorse the date when the same was received by him, and the name and place of abode of the person verifying the same, and the certificate shall, after being so indorsed and entered as aforesaid, be safely kept in his office for future reference when required.

Registration of lis pendens.

14. The provisions of this Ordinance relating to judgments (subject to the provisions hereinafter contained) shall extend to lites pendentes within the intent and meaning of the Acts of Parliament 2 & 3 Victoria, chapter 11, and 13 & 14 Victoria, chapter 35.

15. The memorial of any such lis pendens shall be sufficient if it is signed by the plaintiffs or persons claiming to be plaintiffs to the said lis pendens, and contains the names and additions of the said persons and of the defendants or persons whose estate is intended to be affected thereby, and the day when the bill, information, or special case was filed, and the sum of money thereby claimed or in controversy; but the said memorial shall be verified in all other respects as is provided in the case of judgments.

16. Notwithstanding the said Acts of Parliament, no lis pendens shall be registered in the Registry of the Supreme Court, or elsewhere than in the Land Office; and a lis pendens not registered in the said office shall not bind any purchaser or mortgagee of the estate intended to be thereby affected.

17. So much of the said Acts of Parliament and of the Acts of Parliament 3 & 4 Victoria, chapter 82, and 18 & 19 Victoria, chapter 15, as requires the re-registering of judgments

* 13 and 14 Vict. c. 35 rep. 46 and 47 Vict. c. 49 s. 3.

† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1937.

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