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CAP. 219]
Conveyancing and Property
[1988 Ed.
CHAPTER 219
CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY
To make provision relating to conveyancing and the law of property; to make provision concerning agreements and deeds relating to land and other agreements; to make provision for the acquisition and holding of land and other property; to provide for standard agreements and deeds relating to land; to imply certain covenants and other provisions in agreements and deeds relating to land; to revise and consolidate certain miscellaneous provisions relating to land and other matters; and for connected purposes.
[1 November 1984]
Originally 62 of 1984 —— 27 of 1986, L.N. 387/87, 31 of 1988
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Conveyancing and Property Ordinance.
Interpretation
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"assignment" includes--
(a) the transfer of the whole of the interest in land held under a Crown lease; (Amended, 31 of 1988, s. 2)
(b) a legal charge;
(c) a lease (other than a Crown lease);
(d) a surrender;
(e) an assent; and
(f) every other assurance or conveyance of land by any instrument;
"bankruptcy" includes winding up;
"borrower", where used in the First, Second and Third Schedules, includes "mortgagor";
"equitable interest" means any estate, interest or charge in or over land which is not a legal estate or a freehold;
"instrument" means any document having legal effect except a will;
"land" includes-
(a) land covered by water;
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