Land Registration.
CHAPTER 128.
LAND REGISTRATION.
[CAP. 128
To provide for the registration of deeds, conveyances, wills, and judgments affecting real or immovable property.
Originally
3 of 1844. Fraser
1 of 1844.
[28th February, 1844.]
23 of 1938.
40 of 1948.
9 of 1950.
WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent secret and fraudulent conveyances, and to provide means whereby the title to real and immovable property may be easily traced and ascertained:
37 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Registration Ordinance.
Registration of instruments affecting land.
Office for registration of instruments affecting land.
2. The Land Office shall be a public office for the registration of deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments; and all deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills, and all judgments, by which deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, any parcels of ground, tenements, or premises in this Colony, may be affected, may be entered and registered in the said office in the manner hereinafter directed.
instruments; registration.
registered
effect of non-registration.
3. (1) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, made, executed, or obtained, and registered in pursuance hereof, shall have priority one over the other according to the priority of their respective dates of registration.
(2) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, as last aforesaid, which are not registered shall (as against any subsequent bona fide purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration of the same parcels of ground, tenements, or premises) be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes: Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bona fide leases at rack rent for any term not exceeding three years.
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