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ORDINANCES Nos . 28 AND 29 OF 1886. 2017


Wills Act Amendment. Bills of Lading.


or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon
no clause or paragraph or disposing part of the will shall be written above
the signature, or by the circumstance that there shall appear to be suffi
cient space on or at the bottom of the preceding side or page or other
portion of the same paper on which the wil is written to contain the

signature ; and the enumeration of the above circumstances shall not
restrict the generality of the above enactment ; but no signature under the
Principal Act or this Ordinance shall be operative to give effect to any
disposition or direction which is underneath or which follows it, nor shall
it give effect to any disposition or direction inserted, after the signature
shall be made.

5. The preceding provisions of this Ordinance shall extend and be Ordinance
extend to
applied to every will made prior to the 31st October, 1854, and taking certain wills
already made.
effect in the Colony, administration to which or probate of which had not [15 & 16 Vic.
c. 24. s. 2. ]
up to that date been granted or ordered by a Court of competent juris
diction in consequence of the defective execution of such will , or where

the property not being within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court has
not been possessed or enjoyed by some person or persons claiming to be
entitled thereto in consequence of the defective execution of such will , or
the right thereto shall not have been decided to be in some other person
or persons than the persons claiming under the will, by a Court of com

petent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will ,
and to every will made since the 31st of October, 1854.




No. 29 of 1886.

An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance relating to Bills of Lading.

[ 14th December, 1886. ]

HEREAS it is expedient that Ordinance No. 2 of 1856 should be
W
re-enacted with certain amendments : Be it enacted by the Gov
ernor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof,
as follows :

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1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Bills of Short title.
Lading Ordinance, 1886,"