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Entry of discharge by Land Officer.
1867 c. 47, s. 2.
CAP. 128]
Land Registration
[1986 Ed.
21. If an order is made for vacating any such registration, the Land Officer shall, on the filing with him of a memorial and an office copy of such order, enter a discharge of such lis pendens on the register, and may issue certificates of such entry.
(2 of 1896, s. 3, incorporated. Amended, 50 of 1911, Schedule)
Deposit of deeds, etc., in Land Office for safe custody.
Obligation of Land Officer to register.
MISCELLANEOUS
22. It shall be lawful for any person to deposit in the Land Office for safe custody any deed, conveyance, power of attorney, or other instrument in writing whatsoever, or his last will and testament, of which deeds, conveyances, powers of attorney, or other instruments, wills, and testaments the Land Officer shall (first giving a receipt for the same) immediately make an entry in a book to be kept for that purpose, to which book he shall keep an accurate alphabetical index having reference as well to the name of the testator or parties to each such deed or instrument as to the person depositing the same; and the Land Officer shall carefully and securely keep all such deeds, conveyances, powers of attorney, or other instruments, wills, and testaments in his office until required by the party depositing the same to deliver them back again:
Provided that every such will or testament shall be enclosed within a cover or envelope, sealed with the seal of the testator, whose name shall be endorsed by the Land Officer thereon, and every such will or testament shall remain in the said office until the decease of the testator, unless he previously requires the same to be delivered back, and on the death of the testator the Land Officer shall (after examining such will or testament) deliver the same to the executor first named therein, or to such other person as may be duly authorized to receive the same.
(Amended, 50 of 1911, s. 4 and Schedule, and 51 of 1911, Schedule)
23. The Land Officer shall register, in the manner prescribed by or under this Ordinance, any deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment, delivered into the Land Office for registration if, but only if, he is satisfied that-
(a) the deed, conveyance or other instrument in writing, or will or judgment, may be, or is under any other Ordinance required to be, registered under this Ordinance;
(b) the provisions of this Ordinance and of any regulations made thereunder, and of any other Ordinance relating to the registration of an instrument under this Ordinance have been complied with; and
(c) the prescribed fees have been paid.
(Replaced, 56 of 1980, s. 6)