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[s. 9 cont.]
Registration and custody of memorial.
Indices of land registered and of parties to instruments.
Entry of satisfaction of mortgage or judgment and registration of satisfaction.
Land Registration.
person verifying it, and shall sign the certificate when so indorsed.
(3) Such certificate shall be taken and allowed as evidence of the registration, and of the time of registration, of the deed, conveyance, or other instrument, or of the will or judgment, of which the memorial has been so made.
10. Every such memorial shall, as soon after the receipt thereof as practicable, be carefully registered by the Land Officer, in regular succession as received, according to its proper number, in a particular book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall afterwards be deposited by him in some secure place in his office, and there kept for future reference when required.
11. The Land Officer shall also keep an index of the parcels of ground, tenements, and premises mentioned in every such memorial and also a like index or indices of the names of the several parties to deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and of the devisors and devisees in the case of wills, and of the plaintiffs and defendants in the case of judgments, with accurate references in all such indices respectively to the number and page of registry of the memorial to which any entry in such indices relates.
12. In the case of any mortgage or judgment registered, if at any time afterwards such verified certificate as is hereinafter next mentioned is brought to the Land Officer, certificate of signed by the mortgagor and mortgagee or plaintiff and defendant or their agents as the case may be, and attested by two credible witnesses, whereby it appears that the whole of the moneys due on such mortgage or judgment have been fully paid, or that such mortgage or judgment is otherwise satisfied, then the Land Officer shall make a short entry or memorandum thereof on the memorial and on the margin of the registry of such mortgage or judgment, and shall afterwards carefully register the certificate in one of the registry books of his office, and the Land Officer shall make an entry thereof in his indices referring accurately to the page of registry of the certificate.
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