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after or under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening, or follows or is after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the subscribing witnesses, or by the circumstance that the signature is on a side or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon no clause, or paragraph, or disposing part of the will is written above the signature, or by the circumstance that there appears 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.
(2.) 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 is made.
of the Ordinance to certain wills already made. 15 & 16 Tit. c. 24 s. 2.
4. The preceding provisions of this Ordinance shall extend and be applied to every will made prior to the 31st day of 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 has not 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 day of October, 1854.
ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1886.
AN ORDINANCE relating to Bills of Lading.
[14th December, 1886.]
A.D. 1886.
Ordinance No. 29 of 1880.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
18 & 19 Viet.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Lading Ordinance, 1886.
2. Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading, and every indorsee of a bill of lading, to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned passes upon or by reason of such consignment or indorsement, shall have vested in them the rights mentioned.
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to vest in consignee or indorsee certain rights under bill of lading.
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after or under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening, or follows or is after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the subscribing witnesses, or by the circumstance that the signature is on a side or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon no clause, or paragraph, or disposing part of the will is written above the signature, or by the circumstance that there appears 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.
(2.) 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 is made.
of the Ordi. nance to
certain wills already made. 15 & 16 Tit.
c. 24 s. 2.
4. The preceding provisions of this Ordinance shall extend and be Application applied to every will made prior to the 31st day of 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 com- petent 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 has not 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 day of October, 1854.
ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1886.
AN ORDINANCE relating to Bills of Lading.
BE
[14th December, 1886.]
A.D. 1886.
Ordinance No. 29 of 1880.
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the 18 & 19 Viet.
Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
e. III.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Lading Ordinance, Short title. 1886.
2. Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading, and every Rights under indorsee of a bill of lading, to whom the property in the goods therein bill of lading mentioned passes upon or by reason of such consignment or indorsement, consiguee or
to vest in
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