(Cap. 29),
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"foreshore" means the shore and bed of the sea and of any tidal water, below the line of the medium high tide between the spring tides and the neap tides;
"Land" includes corporeal hereditaments and rentcharges, and any legal or equitable estate or interest therein, including an interest in the proceeds of the sale of land held upon trust for sale, but save as aforesaid does not include any incorporeal hereditament; "parent" includes father and mother, and grandfather and grandmother, and stepfather and stepmother, whether any such relationship is legitimate, illegitimate or in consequence of adoption: "personal estate" and "personal property" do not include chattels real; "personal injuries" includes any disease and any impairment of a
person's physical or mental condition;
"rent" includes a rentcharge and a rent service;
"rentcharge" means any annuity or periodical sum of money charged upon or payable out of land, except a rent service or interest on a mortgage on land;
"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation not pro-
pelled solely by cars;
"trust". "trustee" and "trust for sale" have the same meanings respec-
tively as in the Trustee Ordinance.
(2) A person shall be deemed to claim through another person, if he became entitled by, through, under, or by the act of that other person to the right claimed:
Provided that a person becoming entitled to any estate or interest by virtue of a special power of appointment shall not be deemed to claim through the appointer.
(3) References in this Ordinance to a right of action to recover land shall include references to a right to enter into possession of the land or, in the case of rentcharges, to distrain for arrears of rent, and references to the bringing of such an action shall include references to the making of such an entry or distress.
(4) In the case of rentcharges, references in this Ordinance to the possession of land shall be construed as references to the receipt of the rent, and references to the date of dispossession or discontinuance of
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possession of land shall be construed as references to the date of the last receipt of rent.
(5) In Part III of this Ordinance, references to a right of action shall include references to a cause of action and to a right to receive money secured by a mortgage or charge on any property or to recover proceeds of the sale of land, and to a right to receive a sbare or interest in the personal estate of a deceased person; and references to the date of the accrual of a right of action shall—
(a) in the case of an action for an account, be construed as references to the date on which the matter arose in respect of which an account is claimed;
(b) in the case of an action upon a judgment, be construed as references to the date on which the judgment became enforce- able:
(c) in the case of an action to recover arrears of rent or interest, or damages in respect thereof, be construed as references to the date on which the rent or interest became due.
3.
PART II.
PERIODS OF LIMITATION FOR DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ACTION.
provisions of
The provisions of this Part shall have effect subject to the Part II to be provisions of Part III which provide for the extension of the periods of best ta limitation in the case of disability, acknowledgment, part payment. Part III. fraud and mistake, and in the case of certain actions in respect of 243 Geo. 6, personal injuries.
Actions of contract and tort and certain other actions.
c. 21, 8. 1.
actions of
4. (1) The following actions shall not be brought after the expira- Limitation of tion of six years from the date on which the cause of action accrued, that is to say...
(a) actions founded on simple contract or on tort;
(b) actions to enforce a recognizance;
** contract and
tort, and
certain other actions.
2 & 3 Goo. 6,
c. 21, s.2:
243 Bliz. 2,
(c) actions to enforce an award, where the submission is not by an -36, s. 21).
instrument under seal;