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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 28, 1910.

made to him. This section shall apply in the case of a death whether occurring before or after the commencement of this Ordinance. Provided always that if a grant of Probate or Administration of the estate of the deceased shall be made by the Supreme Court within the period above specified the grantee therein named shall be register. ed as the successor and the fees in this section prescribed shall not be payable.

minors.

30. Whenever any land is vested in a minor it shall be Power to lawful for the Land Officer to appoint some fit person or appoint persons to be a Trustee or Trustees thereof for such minor Trustees for during his minority, and to remove any such Trustee and to appoint any new Trusteo. Every such appointment shall be registered by the Land Offeer in the appropriate office, and upon registration the land the subject of the Trust shall vest in the registered Trustco for all the estate and interest of the minor therein, and upon registration of the removal of any Trustee the land shall divest from the Trustee so removed, and vest in the continuing Trus- tees or any newly registered Trustee as the case may be. The Land Officer before registering a Trustee may require him to give security in such manner and to such amount as the Land Officer may think fit for the due execution of the Trust. With the consent of the Land Officer a Trustee may buy, sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise deal with or dispose of any property to the like extent as if he were the beneficial owner thereof.

31. For the purposes of this Ordinance it shall not be Certification necessary for a memorial of any deed, will or other instru- of Memoriala. ment to be verified upon oath, but every memorial shall in

lieu thereof be certified by the Land Officer as correct.

32. It shall not be necessary for the Land Officer to Land Officer keep an index of names of the several parties to deeds and not required other instruments, or of the devisors or devisees in the case

to keep index. of wills, or of the plaintiffs or defendants in the case of judgments.

missioner

33. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Land Officer Land Officer and every Assistant Land Officer shall be deemed to be a to be Com- duly appointed Commissioner for taking acknowledgments to take of married women under the Married Women (Disposition acknow- of Property) Ordinance, 1885.

ledgments.

34.-(1.) A Conveyance shall be deemed to include and General shall by virtue of this Ordinance operate to convey, with words. the land, all buildings, erections, fixtures, commons, hed- ges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, water-courses, liberties, privileges, casements, rights and advantages whatsoever, appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land, or any part thereof, or at the time of Conveyance demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to, the land or any part thereof.

(2.) A Conveyance of land, having houses or other buildings thereon, shall be deemed to include, and shall by virtue of this Ordinance operate to convey, with the land, houses or other buildings, all outhouses, erections, fixtures, cellars, areas, courts, court-yards, cisterns, sewers, gutters, drains, ways, passages, lights, water-courses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights and advantages whatsoever, appertaining, or reputed to appertain to the land, houses or other buildings conveyed or any of them or any part thereof, or at the time of Conveyance demised, occupied or enjoyed with, or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to, the land, houses or other buildings con- veyed, or any of them or any part thereof.

(3.) This section applies only if and as far as a contrary intention is not expressed in the Conveyance, and shall have effect subject to the terms of the Conveyance and the provisions therein contained.

(4.) This section shall not be construed as giving to any person a better title to any property, right, or thing in this section mentioned than the title which this section gives to him to the land expressed to be conveyed, or as con- veying to him any property, right or thing in this section mentioned further, or otherwise than as the same could have been conveyed to him by the conveying parties.

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