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Saving as to pawnbrokers.
No. 5 of 1886.
USURYS
4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be taken to affect or repeal any Ordinance relating to pawnbrokers.
17 & 18 Vict. c. 90, s. 3.
[cf. No. 1 of 1860.] Repeal of English Acts.
5. The Acts and parts of Acts repealed by the Act 17 and 18 Victoria, chapter 90, shall have no force in this Colony.
[Originally No. 12 of 1886. No. 22 of 1914. No. 21 of 1922. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
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Short title.
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Interpreta-tion.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 31, s. 4.
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No. 6 of 1886, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.
No. 7 of 1886.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law for preventing frauds upon creditors by secret bills of sale of personal chattels,
[12th July, 1886.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "Bill of sale" includes bills of sale, assignments, transfers, declarations of trust without transfer, inventories of goods with receipt thereto attached, or receipts for purchase moneys of goods, and other assurances of personal chattels, and also powers of attorney, authorities, or licences to take possession of personal chattels as security for any debt, and also any agreement, whether intended or not to be followed by the execution of any other instrument, by which a right in equity to any personal chattels, or to any charge or security thereon, is conferred, but does not include the following documents; that is to say, assignments for the benefit of the creditors of the person making or giving the same, marriage settlements, transfers or assignments of any ship or vessel or any share thereof, transfers of goods in the ordinary course of business of any trade or calling, bills of sale of goods in foreign parts or at sea, bills of lading, India warrants, warehouse keepers' certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented:
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
† As amended by No. 22 of 1914, and Law Rev. Ord., 1923,