ORDINANCES Nos. 28 AND 29 OF 1886.
Wills Act Amendment,
Bills of Lading.
or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon no clause or paragraph or disposing part of the will shall be written above the signature, or by the circumstance that there shall appear 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; and 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 shall be made.
Ordinance extend to already made. [15 & 16 Vic. c. 24, s. 2.]
5. The preceding provisions of this Ordinance shall extend and be applied to every will made prior to the 31st October, 1854, and taking effect in the Colony, administration to which or probate of which had not up to that date been granted or ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or where the property not being within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court has not been possessed or enjoyed by some person or persons claiming to be entitled thereto in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or the right thereto shall not have been decided to be in some other person or persons than the persons claiming under the will, by a Court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, and to every will made since the 31st of October, 1854.
No. 29 of 1886.
An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance relating to Bills of Lading.
[14th December, 1886.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that Ordinance No. 2 of 1856 should be re-enacted with certain amendments: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Bills of Lading Ordinance, 1886."
ORDINANCES Nos. 28 AND 29 OF 1886.
Wills Act Amendment,
Bills of Lading.
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or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon no clause or paragraph or disposing part of the will shall be written above the signature, or by the circumstance that there shall appear to be suffi- cient 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; and 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 shall be made.
Ordinance extend to
already made. [15 & 16 Vic. c. 24, s. 2.]
5. The preceding provisions of this Ordinance shall extend and be applied to every will made prior to the 31st October, 1854, and taking certain wills effect in the Colony, administration to which or probate of which had not up to that date been granted or ordered by a Court of competent juris- diction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or where the property not being within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court has. not been possessed or enjoyed by some person or persons claiming to be entitled thereto in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or the right thereto shall not have been decided to be in some other person or persons than the persons claiming under the will, by a Court of com- petent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, and to every will made since the 31st of October, 1854.
No. 29 of 1886.
An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance relating to Bills of Lading.
[14th December, 1886.]
WHE
HEREAS it is expedient that Ordinance No. 2 of 1856 should be re-enacted with certain amendments: Be it enacted by the Gov- ernor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Bills of Short title. Lading Ordinance, 1886.”
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