THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH JULY, 1905.
32. Where all moneys due under or in respect of any Satisfaction mortgage have been paid off or the said mortgage has of mortgage. been otherwise fully satisfied a receipt by the Mortgagee in the Form F in the Schedule hereto, endorsed on the mortgage, and signed in the presence of and attested by the Land Officer, shall vest in the Mortgagor or other persons deriving title by, through or under him, the property comprised in such mortgage, freed and absolutely discharged from the said mortgage and all claims and demand in respect thereof.
33. A receipt for any consideration money or other Receipt in consideration embodied in a deed shall be a sufficient body of
deed to be discharge to any person paying the same without any sufficient. further receipt, and shall in favour of any subsequent purchaser not having notice that the same was not in fact paid or given be sufficient evidence of the payment thereof.
34. Where any mortgage made under this Ordinance is Mortgage to expressed to be made to more persons than oue jointly and two or more not in shares, the mortgage money shall be deemed to be jointly. owing to such persons on a joint account, and the receipt of the survivor, or his or her successors or personal repre- sentatives, shall be a complete discharge for that amount.
85. In the construction of a covenant, or a proviso, Construction or other provision implied in a deed by virtue of this of implied. Ordinance words importing the singular or plural number covenants. or the masculine gender shall be read as also importing the plural or singular number, or the feminine gender, as the case may require.
to estate.
36. The benefit of a covenant implied by this Ordinance Covenant to shall be annexed and incident to, and shall go with, the be annexed estate or interest of the implied covenantee, and shall be capable of being enforced by any person in whom that estate or interest is, for the whole or any part thereof, from time to time vested.
37. Every covenant, whether expressed or implied, Covenants to shall be deemed to be made with the covenantee, his extend to successors, executors, administrators and assigns, and shall successors,
&c. have effect as if successors, executors, administrators and assigns were expressed.
be varied.
38. Any covenant or provision implied by this Ordinance Implied cov- may be varied or extended by deed, and as so varied and enant may extended shall as far as may be operate in the like manner and with all the like incidents, effects and cousequences as if such variations and extensions were directed in this Ordinance to be implied.
all the estate, &c.
39. Every Conveyance, except a Conveyance by way of Provision for lease, shall by virtue of this Ordinance be effectual to pass all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand which the conveying parties respectively have in, or to, or on the property so conveyed or expressed or intended to be so conveyed, or which they respectively have power to con- vey in, or to, or on the same.
40. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from lower for time to time as he may think fit to make regulations for Governor-in- the purposes of this Ordinance, and particularly of fixing make regul-
Council to the fees to be paid thereunder and of providing for the ations. recovery of Crown rent by distraint or other proceedings. The said regulations shall be published in the Gazette in both the English and Chinese Languages, and shall there- upon be as valid as if inserted in this Ordinance.
41. Any fees payable in virtue of any regulation made Recovery of under this Ordinance shall he recoverable in a summary fees. way before a Magistrate.
42. A copy of or extract from any document in the Certified enstody of the Land Officer shall, if certified by the Land copies
receivable Officer to be correct, be admissible in evidence in all
in evidence. Courts to the same extent as the original document would be admissible.
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