1986 Ed.]
Land Registration
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7. Every such memorial shall contain a just and true account of the several particulars therein set forth and shall be verified--
(a) by the oath of some competent person taken before any justice of the peace;
or
(b) by the certificate of a person admitted and enrolled as a solicitor in the
Colony; or
(c) where the memorial has been prepared in the Land Office, by the certificate
of the Land Officer.
8.
(1) The memorial of any deed, conveyance, or other instrument in writing, and of any will, shall contain the date of such deed, conveyance, or other instrument, or of such will, and the particular nature and object thereof, the names and additions of all the parties to such deed, conveyance, or other instrument, and of the devisor and devisee or devisees of such will, and the names and additions of all the witnesses thereto and shall especially particularize and express the parcels of ground, tenements and premises affected or intended to be affected by such deed, conveyance, or other instrument, or by such will, and the proper and ordinary or accustomed names of the places where the same are situate, and (except in the case of a will) the pecuniary or other consideration for the same, in the form or to the effect of the form in the Schedule.
(2) The memorial of any judgment shall contain the names and additions of the plaintiff and defendant, the sum thereby recovered or secured, if any, the time of entering up or recording the same, and the sum of money bona fide due thereon, if any.
(3) Provided always that when there are more writings than one for perfecting the same conveyance, devise or security affecting the same parcels of ground, tenements, and premises, all such writings shall be stated in one and the same memorial, in which it shall be sufficient to particularize such parcels, tenements and premises only once.
9. (1) On the delivery of any such memorial as aforesaid, the Land Officer shall number the memorial according to the order of time in which it has been so delivered, and shall give a receipt for it, in which receipt shall be specified the certain day and time of day when the memorial was so delivered, and the proper number thereof in the register of the Land Office.
(2) The Land Officer shall also in like manner immediately endorse on the back of the memorial a certificate containing the day and the time of day when the memorial was so delivered, and the name and place of abode of the person verifying it, and shall sign the certificate when so endorsed.
(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, signed by the mortgagor and mortgagee or plaintiff and defendant or their agents as the case may be, and attested by 2 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.
Verification of memorial.
Particulars to be
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contained in memorial.
Schedule.
Numbering, receipt
for, and endorsement of certificate on memorial.
Registration and custody of memorial.
Indices of land registered and of parties to instruments.
Entry of satisfaction of mortgage or judgment and registration of certificate of satisfaction.