Law Amendment (Miscellaneous Provisions).
CHAPTER 23.
THE LAW AMENDMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section
1. Short title
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Amendment and Declaration of Law.
2. Administration by the court of estate of deceased insolvent
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3. person Statute of limitations
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4. Equitable waste
5. Merger
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Action for possession of immovable property by mortgagor Assignment of debt or chose in action
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Stipulations not of the essence of contracts
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9. Assignment to self and others
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Mercantile Law Amendment.
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10. Consideration for guarantee need not appear by writing 11. Right of surety who discharges liability to assignment of all securities held by creditor
Limitation of actions for merchants' accounts
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13. Certain periods of limitation not to be extended by absence, etc.
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Period of limitation to run as to joint debtors in the Colony, though some absent
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Extension of certain enactments to acknowledgment by agent 16. Saving of benefit of statute to contractor or debtor whose co-contractor or co-debtor makes payment
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Public Officers.
Protection of public officers acting under authority of enactment
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18. Proceedings not abated by change in office
Government Contracts.
19. Contracts by public officers
20. Effect of contracts already made by public officers
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Contracts by Crown Agents
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22. Omission of title after signature of public officer immaterial
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Usury.
23. Rate of interest where no agreement, etc.
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24. Abolition of outlawry in civil proceedings
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Abolition of Outlawry.
Execution of Instruments under Seal by Foreign Corporations.
25. Authority of agent of foreign corporation need not be under seal, unless seal required by law of foreign state
Payment of Public Allowances where Payee Certified. 26. Payment of emoluments, etc., where the payee is certified to be incapable
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