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ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1886.

Bills of Sale,

The machinery or effects excluded by this section from the definition of trade machinery shall not be deemed to be personal chattels within the meaning of this Ordinance.

Factory or workshop means any premises on which any labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them, that is to say,

(a) In or incidental to the making any article or part of an article; or

(b) In or incidental to the altering, repairing, finishing, of any article; or

Certain instruments giving powers of distress to be subject to this Ordinance.

6. Every attornment, instrument, or agreement, not being a mining lease, whereby a power of distress is given or agreed to be given by any person to any other person by way of security for any present, future, or contingent debt or advance, and whereby any rent is reserved or made payable as a mode of providing for the payment of interest on such debt or advance, or otherwise for the purpose of such security only, shall be deemed to be a bill of sale, within the meaning of this Ordinance, of any personal chattels which may be seized or taken under such power of distress.

Provided, that nothing in this section shall extend to any mortgage of any estate or interest in any land or tenement which the mortgagee, being in possession, shall have demised to the mortgagor as his tenant at a fair and reasonable rent.

7. No fixtures or growing crops shall be deemed, under this Ordinance, to be separately assigned or charged by reason only that they are assigned by separate words, or that power is given to sever them from the land or building to which they are affixed or from the land on which they grow without otherwise taking possession of or dealing with such land or building, or land, if by the same instrument any leasehold interest in the land or building, to which such fixtures are affixed, or in the land on which such crops grow is also conveyed or assigned to the same.

Fixtures or growing crops not to be deemed separately assigned when the land passes by the same instrument. [41 and 42 V. c. 31, s. 7.]

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ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1886. Bills of Sale, The machinery or effects excluded by this section from the definition of trade machinery shall not be deemed to be personal chattels within the meaning of this Ordinance. Factory or workshop means any premises on which any labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them, that is to say, (a) In or incidental to the making any article or part of an article; or (b) In or incidental to the altering, repairing, finishing, of any article; or (c) In or incidental to the adapting for sale any article. Certain instruments giving powers of distress to be subject to this Ordinance. 6. Every attornment, instrument, or agreement, not being a mining lease, whereby a power of distress is given or agreed to be given by any person to any other person by way of security for any present, future, or contingent debt or advance, and whereby any rent is reserved or made payable as a mode of providing for the payment of interest on such debt or advance, or otherwise for the purpose of such security only, shall be deemed to be a bill of sale, within the meaning of this Ordinance, of any personal chattels which may be seized or taken under such power of distress. Provided, that nothing in this section shall extend to any mortgage of any estate or interest in any land or tenement which the mortgagee, being in possession, shall have demised to the mortgagor as his tenant at a fair and reasonable rent. 7. No fixtures or growing crops shall be deemed, under this Ordinance, to be separately assigned or charged by reason only that they are assigned by separate words, or that power is given to sever them from the land or building to which they are affixed or from the land on which they grow without otherwise taking possession of or dealing with such land or building, or land, if by the same instrument any leasehold interest in the land or building, to which such fixtures are affixed, or in the land on which such crops grow is also conveyed or assigned to the same. Fixtures or growing crops not to be deemed separately assigned when the land passes by the same instrument. [41 and 42 V. c. 31, s. 7.]

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ORDINANCE No. 12 or 1886. Bills of Sale, The machinery or effects excluded by this section from the definition of trade machinery shall not be deemed to be personal chattels within the meaning of this Ordinance. manual Factory or workshop means any premises on which any labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them, that is to say, (a.) In or incidental to the making any article or part of an article; or (b.) In or incidental to the altering, repairing, finish- ing, of any article; or (c.) In or incidental to the adapting for sale any article. 1975 Certain in- struments giv- ing powers of distress to be subject to this Ordinance. c. 31, s. 6.] 6. Every attornment, instrument, or agreement, not being a mining lease, whereby a power of distress is given or agreed to be given by any person to any other person by way of security for any present, future, or contingent debt or advance, and whereby any rent is reserved or made [41 and 42 V. payable as a mode of providing for the payment of interest on such debt or advance, or otherwise for the purpose of such security only, shall be deemed to be a bill of sale, within the meaning of this Ordinance, of any personal chattels which may be seized or taken under such power of distress. Provided, that nothing in this section shall extend to any mortgage of any estate or interest in any land or tenement which the mortgagee, being in possession, shall have demised to the mortgagor as his tenant at a fair and reasonable rent. 7. No fixtures or growing crops shall be deemed, under this Ordi- nance, to be separately assigned or charged by reason only that they are assigned by separate words, or that power is given to sever them from the land or building to which they are affixed or from the land on which they grow without otherwise taking possession of or dealing with such land or building, or land, if by the same instrument any leasehold interest in the land or building, to which such fixtures are affixed, or in the land which such crops grow is also conveyed or assigned to the same. on :: persons or person. Fixtures or growing crops not to be deemed sepa- rately assign- ed when the land passes by the same in- strument. [41 and 42 V. c. 31, s. 7.]

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ORDINANCE No. 12 or 1886.

Bills of Sale,

The machinery or effects excluded by this section from the definition of trade machinery shall not be deemed to be personal chattels within the meaning of this Ordinance.

manual

Factory or workshop means any premises on which any

labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them, that is to say,

(a.) In or incidental to the making any article or part

of an article; or

(b.) In or incidental to the altering, repairing, finish-

ing, of any article; or

(c.) In or incidental to the adapting for sale any

article.

1975

Certain in-

struments giv-

ing powers of

distress to be subject to this Ordinance.

c. 31, s. 6.]

6. Every attornment, instrument, or agreement, not being a mining lease, whereby a power of distress is given or agreed to be given by any person to any other person by way of security for any present, future, or contingent debt or advance, and whereby any rent is reserved or made [41 and 42 V. payable as a mode of providing for the payment of interest on such debt or advance, or otherwise for the purpose of such security only, shall be deemed to be a bill of sale, within the meaning of this Ordinance, of any personal chattels which may be seized or taken under such power of distress.

7. No fixtures or growing crops shall be deemed, under this Ordi- nance, to be separately assigned or charged by reason only that they are assigned by separate words, or that power is given to sever them from the land or building to which they are affixed or from the land on which they grow without otherwise taking possession of or dealing with such land or building, or land, if by the same instrument any leasehold interest in the land or building, to which such fixtures are affixed, or in the land which such crops grow is also conveyed or assigned to the same.

persons or person.

Fixtures or growing crops not to be deemed sepa- rately assign- ed when the land passes by the same in- strument. [41 and 42 V. c. 31, s. 7.]

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