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No. 1 of 1844.

LAND REGISTRATION.

of memorial.

conveyance, or other instrument, or of the will or judgment, of which the memorial has been so made.

Registration 10. Every such memorial shall, as soon after the receipt and custody thereof as practicable, be carefully registered by the Land Officer, in regular succession 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 place in his office, and there kept for future reference when required.

secure

Indices of

11. The Land Officer shall also keep an index of the parcels lands regis-

of ground, tenements, and premises mentioned in every such tered and of parties to memorial and also a like index or indices of the names of the instruments, several parties to deeds, conveyances, 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 indices respectively to the number and page of registry of the memorial to which any entry in such indices relates.

Entry of satisfaction

of mortgage

12. In the case of any mortgage or judgment registered, if at any time afterwards such verified certificate as is herein- or judgment after next mentioned is brought to the Land Officer, signed by and registra- the respective mortgagors and mortgagees or plaintiffs and certificate of defendants or their agents respectively, and attested by two

tion of

satisfaction,

of certificate of satisfac- tion of

credible witnesses, whereby 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 indices referring accurately to the page of registry of the certificate.

Contents,

13.—(1) Every such certificate shall contain the following verification, particulars, that is to say, in the case of a mortgage the names and custody and additions of the original parties, the date of the instrument, the sum thereby secured, and the time of payment or other satisfaction thereof; and in the case of a judgment the names and additions of the plaintiffs and defendants, the time of entering up or recording the same, the sum thereby recovered,

mortgage or judgment.