LAND REGISTRATION.
No. 1 of 1844.
1844.
No. 1 of 1844.
[Originally 'No. 3 of 1844. No. 28 of 1931. Law Rev. *
An Ordinance to provide for the registration of deeds, conveyances, wills, and judgments affecting real immovable property.
[28th February, 1844.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent secret and fraudulent conveyances, and to provide means whereby the title to real and immovable property may be easily traced and ascertained:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Registration Ordinance, 1844.
Registration of instruments affecting land.
2. The Land Office 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, and all judgments, by which deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, any parcels of ground, tenements, or premises in this Colony, may be affected, may be entered and registered in the said office in the manner hereinafter directed.
3.-(1) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, and wills and judgments, made, executed, or registered in pursuance hereof, shall have priority one over the other according to the priority of their respective dates of registration.
(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.
For registration in Land Office of memoranda of modifications and exemptions under the Buildings Ordinance, 1935, see No. 18 of 1935, s. 165.
LAND REGISTRATION.
No. 1 of 1844.
1844.
No. 1 of 1844.
[Originally 'No. 3 of
1844.
No. 28 of 1931. Law Rev.
*
An Ordinance to provide for the registration of deeds, O., 1937.]
conveyances, wills, and judgments affecting real immovable property.
[28th February, 1844.]
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WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent secret and fraudulent conveyances, and to provide means whereby the title to real and immovable property may be easily traced and ascertained:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Land Registration Short title. Ordinance, 1844.
Registration of instruments affecting land.
Office for
2. The Land Office shall be a public office for the regis- Establish- tration of deeds,
deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in ment of Land writing, and wills and judgments; and all deeds, conveyances, registration and other instruments in writing, and wills, and all judgments, of instru by which deeds, conveyances, and other instruments in writing, ing land.. and wills and judgments, any parcels of ground, tenements, or premises in this Colony, may be affected, may be entered and registered in the said office in the manner hereinafter directed.
3.-(1) All such deeds, conveyances, and other instruments Priority of in writing, and wills and judgments, made, executed, or registered
instruments; obtained and registered in pursuance hereof, shall have priority effect of non- one over the other according to the priority of their respective registration. dates of registration.
(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 pur- chaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration of the same parcels of ground, tenements, or premises) be absolutely null
For registration in Land Office of memoranda of modifications and exemp- tions under the Buildings Ordinance, 1935, see No. 18 of 1935, s. 165.
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