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Registration

and custody

No. 1.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 1844.

(3.) Such certificate shall be taken and allowed as evidence of the registration, and of the time of registration, of the deed, conveyance, or other instrument, or of the will or judgment, of which the memorial has been so made.

10. Every such memorial shall, as soon after the receipt thereof as of memorial. practicable, be carefully registered by the Land Officer, in regular suc- cession as received, according to its proper number, in a particular book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall afterwards be deposited by him in some secure place in his office, and there kept for future reference when required.

Keeping of index of lands

registered and

of index of parties to in- struments.

Entry of sa- tisfaction of mortgage or

registration of certificate of

satisfaction.

11. The Land Officer shall also keep an index of the parcels of ground. tenements, and premises mentioned in every such memorial, and also a like index or indexes of the names of the several parties to deeds, con- veyances, and other instruments in writing, and of the devisors and devisees in the case of wills, and of the plaintiffs and defendants in the case of judgments, with accurate references in all such indexes respect- ively to the number and page of registry of the memorial to which any entry in such index or indexes relates.'

12. In the case of any mortgage or judgment registered in pursuance of this Ordinance, if at any time afterwards such verified certificate as judgment and is hereinafter next mentioned is brought to the Land Officer, signed by the respective mortgagors and mortgagees or plaintiff's and defendants or their agents respectively, and attested by two credible witnesses, where- by it appears that the whole of the moneys due on such mortgage or judgment have been fully paid, or that such mortgage or judgment is otherwise satisfied, then the Land Officer shall make a short entry or memorandum thereof on the memorial and on the margin of the registry of such mortgage or judgment, and shall afterwards carefully register the certificate in one of the registry books of his office, and the Land Officer shall make an entry thereof in his index or indexes, referring accurately to the page of registry of the certificate.

Contents. verification,

and custody

of satisfaction

13.-(1.) Every such certificate shall contain the following particulars, that is to say, in the case of a mortgage the names and additions of the of certificate original parties, the date of the instrument, the sum thereby secured, and the time or times of payment or other satisfaction thereof; and in the case of a judgment the names and additions of the plaintiffs and defend-. ants, the time of entering up or recording the same, the sum or sums thereby recovered, and the date or dates of payment or other satisfaction of the amount boná jide due thereon.

of mortgage or judgment.

(2.) Every such certificate shall be verified by the oath of some com- petent person that the same contains a just and true account of the several particulars therein set forth, which oath shall be made and taken

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