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OF HONGKONG.

ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1844.

AN ORDINANCE to provide for the Registration of Deeds, Con- veyances, Wills, and Judgments affecting Real or Inmovable Property in this Colony.

[28th February, 1844.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent secret and fraudulent convey-

ances in this Colony and to provide means whereby the title to real and immovable property may be easily traced and ascertained :

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

A.D. 1844. Ordinance

No. 3 of 1844. with Ordi- niners Na, 10 of 1856 and No. 2 of 1896 incorporated.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Registration Ordinance, Short title, 1844.

Registration of Instruments affecting Land.

2. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, the Land ffice in this Colony shall be a public office for the registration of deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments; and all deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills now or hereafter to be made or executed, and all judgments hereafter to be obtained, by which deeds, conveyances, and other in-

Establish-

ment of Land for registru- ments affect ing land in the

Office as office

tion of instru-

Colony.