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No. 1 of 1844.

LAND REGISTRATION.

Priority of

3. --(1) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in registered instruments; writing, and wills and judgments, made, executed, or obtained and effect of non- registered in pursuance hereof, shall have priority one over the other according to the priority of their respective dates of registration.

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- (2) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, as last aforesaid which are not registered shall (as against any subsequent bonâ fide purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration of the same parcels of ground, tenements, or premises) be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes : Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bond fide lenses at rack rent for any term not exceeding 3 years.

4. No notice whatsoever, either actual or constructive, of any prior unregistered unregistered deed, conveyance, or other instrument in writing, or not to affect will or judgment, shall affect the priority of any such instrument registered

as aforesaid as is duly registered.

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Period within 5. All deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and ments to be Wills and judgments, which are duly registered within the respective times next mentioned, that is to say, all deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing (except wills) which, if executed in this Colony, are registered within one month, or which, if executed in any other place, are registered within 12 months, after the time. of execution thereof respectively, and all wills which, if the devisor dies in this Colony are registered within one month, or which, if the devisor dies in any other place, are registered within 12 months, after the decease of every devisor respectively, and all judgments which are registered within one month after the entering up or recording thereof, shall severally be in like manner entitled to priority, and shall take effect respectively by relation to the date thereof only in the saine manner as if this Ordinance had not been passed.

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Mode of registration.

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6. The registration intended by this Ordinance shall be made in memorial of manner following, that is to say, a memorial containing the instrument to particulars hereinafter specified shall be delivered into the Land be registered.

Office, signed, in the case of a deed, conveyance, or other instrument

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