WILLS ACT AMENDMENT.
No. 14 of 1886.
261
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.
[s. 4, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1937.]
No. 15 of 1886.
An Ordinance relating to bills of lading.
[Originally No. 29 of 1886.]
[14th December, 1886.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Lading Ordinance, 1886.
Short title.
Rights under bill of lading consignee or to vest in indorsee.
2. Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading, and every indorsee of a bill of lading, to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned passes upon or by reason of such consignment or indorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities, c. 111, s. 1.
in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.
18 & 19 Vict.
not to affect
3. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prejudice or affect any Ordinance right of stoppage in transitu, or any right to claim freight against right of the original shipper or owner, or any liability of the consignee stoppage or indorsee by reason or in consequence of his being such consignee or indorsee or of his receipt of the goods by reason or freight.
in consequence of such consignment or indorsement.
in transitu or claims for
18 & 19 Vict. c. 111, s. 2.
4. Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or Bill of lading indorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have in hands of been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of etc., to be consignee,