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LAND REGISTRATION.

before any Justice of the Peace of the Colony.

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(3.) On the back of such verified certificate the Land Officer shall immediately indorse the date when the same was received by him, and the name and place of abode of the person verifying the same, and the certificate shall, after being so indorsed and entered as aforesaid, be safely kept in his office for future reference when required.

Registration of Lis Pendens,

14. The provisions of this Ordinance relating to judgments (subject Registration to the provisions hereinafter contained) shall extend to lites pendentes

of lix pendeux within the intent and meaning of the Acts of Parliament 2 & 3 Victoria SeeOrdinance

as judgment, Chapter 11, entitled “ An Act for the better Protection of Purchasers

No. 1 of 1865 *. 159. against Judgments, Crown Debts, Lis Pendens, and Fiats in Bankruptcy," and 13 & 14 Victoria Chapter 35, entitled “An Act to diminish the Delay and Expense of Proceedings in the High Court of Chancery in England.” 15. The memorial of any such fis pendens shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Ordinance if it is signed by the plaintiff's or persons claiming to be plaintiffs in the said lis pendens, und contains the names and additions of the said persons and of the defendants or persons whose estate is intended to be affected thereby, and the day when the bill, information, or special case was filed, and the sum of money thereby claimed or in controversy, yet so as that the said memorial shall be verified in all other respects us is provided by this Ordinance in the case of judgments.

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registered.

16. Notwithstanding the said Acts of Parliament, no lis pendens shall – Case of fix be registered in the Registry of the Supreme Court, or elsewhere than pendens vest in the Land Office, under this Ordinance; and a lis pendens not registered in the said office, and in due conformity with this Ordinance, shall not bind any purchaser or mortgagee of the estate intended to be thereby affected.

certain Acts

17. So much of the said Acts of Parliament and of the Acts of Parlia- Extension of nient 3 & 4 Victoria Chapter 82, entitled "An Act for further amending operation of the Act for abolishing Arrests on Mesne Process in Civil Actions” and of Parliament. 18 & 19 Victoria Chapter 15, entitled “ An Act for the better Protection of Purchasers against Judgments, Crown Debts, Cases of Lis pendens, and Life Annuities or Rent-charges," as requires the re-registering of judgments and lites pendentes after every successive period of five years, beginning from the entry thereof respectively, shall extend to all judgments, lites pendentes, and orders, now or hereafter to be registered in the Land Office, and by which it is intended to affect any estate.

18. Subject to the provisions of section 11 of the said Act 18 & 19 Effieet of Victoria Chapter 15 for the relief of purchasers and mortgagees for registry and

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