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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH MAY, 1905.
Certification of Memorials.
Land Officer
such amount as the Land Officer may think fit for the dne execution of the Trust. With the consent of the Land Officer a Trustee may buy, sell, mortgage, lease or other- wise deal with or dispose of any property to the like extent as if he were the beneficial owner thereof.
16 For the purposes of this Ordinance it shall not be necessary for a memorial of any deed, will or other instru- ment to be verified upon oath, but every memorial shall in lien thereof be certified by the Land Officer as correct.
17. It shall not be necessary for the Land Officer to not required keep an index of names of the several parties to deeds and to keep
other instruments, or of the devisors or devisees in the case index.
of wills, or of the plaintiffs or defendants in the case of judgments.
Land Officer to be Com- misioner to take acknow- ledgments.
General words.
Conveyance to be in
prescribed forms.
Sales,
Implied cor-
enants:
() Validity of lease, right to non- vey, further
Assurance.
18. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Land Officer and every Assistant Land Officer shall be deemed to be a duly appointed Commissioner for taking acknowledgments of married women under the Married Women (Disposition, of Property) Ordinance, 1885.
19.—(1.) A Conveyauce shall be deemed to include and shall by virtue of this Ordinance operate to convey, with the land, all buildings, erections, fixtures, commous, hed- ges, ditches, fences, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, rights an 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, erectious, 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 fuoyed 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 exprossel 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.
20. Every Conveyance executed after the coming into. operation of this Ordinauce shall be made according to one of the Forms set out in the Schedule hereto with such variations (if any) as eircumstances may require. The Land Officer may from time to time prescribe such other forms as he may deem necessary for facilitating dealings with land; such forms shall be published in the Gazette, and shall thereafter be deemed to be included in the Sche- dule hereto.
21. A Conveyance on a sale shall be made in Form A in the said Schedule, and the following covenants shall be deemed to be included in every such Conveyance :---
(a.) A covenant by the Vendor with the Purchaser that notwithstanding anything by the Vendor done or knowingly omitted or suffered the Crown Lease, licence or grant under which the property conveyed is held is at the date of the Conveyance valid and subsisting; AND that the Vendor has at the date of the Conveyance good right to convey the property comprised in the Conveyance as is in the Conveyance expressed free from incumbrances except as therein mentioned; AND that the Vendor and all persons claiming under or in trust for him will, during the residue of the term of years created by the Crown Lease, licence or grant under which the property
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