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[49 VIOT.]

Land Transfer.

Confirmation of Possessory Title.

A.D. 1886.

to Land Transfer

4. Any person registered as proprietor of freehold land with a Application possessory title or qualified title, may apply to the Land Transfer Board for the confirmation of his title as an absolute title at the Board for

confirmation 5 expiration of five years, unless due cause be shown in the meantime of possessory

why such confirmation should not take place, such five years to title or quali commence from the date of the first publication of the notice in this fed title. Aot mentioned.

The application for the confirmation of title shall be accompanied 10 by an affidavit or declaration of the applicant in the prescribed form stating that the applicant has made due inquiry into his title, and believes that the confirmation of his title will not prejudice or affect the right of any other person to any estate or interest in the land.

Any person who knowingly and wilfully makes any false 15 affidavit, declaration, or statement of fact whatsoever for the pur- pose of procuring a confirmation of his title, shall be subject to the same pains and penalties as if ho were guilty of perjury.

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5. On the receipt of such application, accompanied as aforesaid, Duty of

Land and on the deposit by the applicant of such sum as may be deemed 20 by the Land Transfer Board to be sufficient to cover the expenses of Board ou

and consequential on the application, the Board shall publish notice of such application having been made.

rip of application to publish notice.

6. The notice shall be in the prescribed form, specifying amongst Form of other things such matters as will direct attention to the fact of notion. 25 such application having been made, to the effect of such application on the title to the lands to which it relates, with a general descrip- tion of the lands, and of the place in which they are situate, and to the manner in which any person desirous of showing cause against such application is to act.

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7. Publication of such notice shall be made in the following ways and in such other ways (if any) as may be prescribed:

(1.) by advertisement in the London Gazette, and in such other newspaper or newspapers, not exceeding four, as the Land Transfer Board may prescribe; and

(8.) by placing a copy of the notice of the application on the church door of the principal church or one of the churches of the parish, or if the lands are situate in more than one parish, of each of the parishes in which the lands are situate, or on such building or place in the land transfer district in which the lands are situate as may be directed by the Land Transfer Board.

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