WILLS ACT AMENDMENT.
No. 14 of 1886.
359
after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the subscribing witnesses, or by the circumstance that the signature is on a side or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon no clause, or paragraph, or disposing part of the will is written above the signature, or by the circumstance that there appears to be sufficient space on or at the bottom of the preceding side or page or other portion of the same paper on which the will is written to contain the signature.
(2) The enumeration of the above circumstances shall not restrict the generality of the above enactment; but no signature under the principal Act or this Ordinance shall be operative to give effect to any disposition or direction which is underneath or which follows it, nor shall it give effect to any disposition or direction inserted after the signature is made.
the Ordinance made.
4. This Ordinance shall extend and be applied to every will made prior to the 31st day of October, 1854, and taking effect in the Colony, administration to which or probate of which had not up to that date been granted or ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or where the property, not being within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, has not been possessed or enjoyed by some person claiming to be entitled thereto in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or the right thereto has not been decided to be in some other person than the persons claiming under the will by a court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, and to every will made since the 31st day of October, 1854.
No. 15 of 1886.
An Ordinance relating to bills of lading.
[Originally No. 29 of 1886.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
18 & 19 Vict.
c. 111.
[14th December, 1886.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Lading Ordinance, 1886.
2. Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading, to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned passes upon or by reason of such consignment, and every indorsee of a bill of lading, to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned passes upon or by reason of such indorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights under the contract of carriage contained in or evidenced by such bill of lading.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.