BILLS OF SALES ORDINANCE, 1886
Title
BILLS OF SALES ORDINANCE, 1886
Description
No. 7 of 1886.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law for preventing
frauds upon creditors by secret bills of sale of personal
chattels.
[12th July, 1886.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Sale Ordin-
ance, 1886.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) ' Bill of sale ' includes bills of sale, assignments,
transfers, declarations of trust without transfer, inventories of
goods with receipt thereto attached, or receipts for purchase
moneys of -goods, and other assurances of personal chattels,
and also powers of attorney, authorities, or licences to take
possession of personal chattels as security for any debt, and
also any agreement, whether intended or not to be followed
by the execution of any other. instrument, by which a right
in equity to any persdrial chattels, or to any charge or security
thereon, is conferred, but does not include the following docu-
ments; that is to. say, assignments for the benefit of the creditors
of the person making or giving the same, marriage settlements,
transfers or assignments of any ship or vessel or any share
thereof, transfers of goods in the ordinary course of business
of any trade or calling, bills of sale of goods in foreign parts
or at sea, bills of lading, India warrants, warehouse keepers'
certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or
any other documents used in the ordinary course of business
,as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorizing
or purporting to authorize, either by indorsement or by delivery,
the possessor of such document to transfer or receive goods
thereby represented:
Provided always that in the construction of sections 8, io
(1), 12 to ig, and 23, the said expression does not include bills
of sale or other instruments hereinbefore mentioned which may
be given otherwise than by way of security for the payment of
money:
Provided further that an instrument charging or creating
any security on or declaring trusts of imported goods given or
executed at any time prior to their deposit in a warehouse,
godown, factory or store, or to their being re-shipped for
export, or delivered to a purchaser not being the person giving
or executing such instrument, shall not be deemed a bill of
sale, but nothing in this proviso shall affect the operation of
section 43 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931, in respect of
any goods comprised in any such instrument as is hereinbefore
described,, if such goods would but for' this proviso be goods
within the meaning of that section.
(b) ' Personal chattels ' means goods, furniture, and other
articles capable of complete transfer by delivery, and, (when
separately assigned or charged) fixtures and growing crops,
but does not include fixtures (except trade machinery as
hereinafter defined) when assigned together with any interest
in any land or building to which they are affixed, or growing
crops when assigned together with any interest in the land on
which they grow, or shares or interests in the stock, funds, or
securities of any Government or in the capital or property of
incorporated or joint-stock companies, or choses in action, or
any stock or produce upon any farm or lands which, by virtue
of any covenant or agreement, ought not to be removed from
any farm where the same are at the time of making or giving
of such bill of sale.
Personal chattels shall be. deemed to be in the apparent
possession of the person making or giving a bill of sale, so
long as they remain or are in or upon any house, mill, ware-
house, building, works, yard, land, or other premises occupied
by him, or are used and enjoyed by him in any place whatsoever,
notwithstanding that formal possession thereof may have been
taken by or given to any other person.
(c) ' Prescribed ' means prescribed by rules made under
the provisions of this Ordinance.
(d) ' The Registrar ' means the Registrar of the Supreme
Court.
3. This Ordinance shall apply to every bill of sale (whether
the same is absolute or subject or not subject to any trust),
whereby the holder or grantee has power, either with or without
notice and either immediately or at any future time, to seize or
take possession of any personal chattels within the Colony com-
prised in or made subject to such bill of sale.
[s. 4, rep. No. 62 of 1911.]
5.-(1) Trade machinery shall, for the purposes of this
Ordinance, be deemed to be personal chattels, and any mode
of disposition of trade machinery by the owner thereof which
would be a bill of sale as to any pther personal chattels shall
be deemed to be a bill of sale within the meaning of this
Ordinance.
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, 'trade machinery'
ineans the machinery used in or attached to any factory or
workshop-
(a) exclusive of the fixed motive-powers, such as the
waterwheels and steam engines, and the steam-boilers, donkey
engines, and other fixed appurtenances of the said motive-
powers; and
(b) exclusive of the fixed power machinery, such as the
shafts, wheels, drums, and their fixed appurtenances, which
transmit the action of the motive-powers to the other machinery,
fixed and loose; and
(c) exclusive of the pipes for steam, gas, and water in the
factory or workshop.
(3) The machinery or effects excluded by this section from
the definition 'of trade machinery shall not be deemed to be
personal chattels within the meaning of this Ordinance.
(4) For the purposes of this Ordinance, ' factory ' or
workshop ' means any premises on which any manual labour
is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or
incidental to the following purposes or any of them:-
(a) making any article or part of an article; or
(b) altering, repairing, or finishing any article; or
(c) adapting for sale any article.
6. Every attornment, instrument, o. agreement, not being a
mining lease, whereby a power of distress is given or agreed
to be given by any person to any other person by way of
security for any present, future, or contingent debt or advance,
and whereby any rent is reserved or made payable as a
mode of providing for the payment of interest on such debt
or advance, or otherwise for the purpose of such security only,
shall be deemed to be a bill of sale, within the meaning of this
Ordinance, of any personal chattels which may be seized or
taken under such power of distress: Provided that nothing in
this section shall extend to any mortgage of any estate or interest
in any land or tenement which the mortgagee, being in posses-
sion, has demised to the mortgagor as his tenant at a fair and
reasonable rent.
7.-(1) No fixtures or growing crops shall be deemed,
under this Ordinance, to be separately assigned or charged by
reason only that they are assigned by separate words, or that
power is given to sever them from the land or building to which
they are affixed, or from the land on which they grow, without
otherwise taking possession of or dealing with such land or
building, or land, if by the same instrument any leasehold
interest in the land or building to which such fixtures are affixed,
or in the land on which such crops grow, is also conveyed or
assigned to the same perwn.
[(2) rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1937.]
8. Every bill of sale shall be duly attested and shall be
registered within seven clear days after the execution thereof,
or, if it is executed in any place out of the Colony, then within
seven clear days after the time at which it would, in the course
of post, arrive in the Colony if posted immediately after the
execution thereof, and shall truly set forth the consideration for
which it was given; otherwise such bill of sale shall be void
in respect of the personal chattels comprised therein.
9. Where a subsequent bill of sale is executed within or
on the expiration of seven days after the execution of a prior
unregistered bill of sale, and comprises all or any part of the
personal chattels comprised in such prior bill of sale, then, if
such subsequent bill of sale is given as a security for the same
debt as is secured by the prior bill of sale or for any part of such
debt, it shall, to the extent to which it is a security for the sarne.
debt or part thereof and so far as respects the personal chattels
or part thereof comprised in the prior bill, be absolutely void,
unless it is proved, to the satisfaction of the court having
cognizance of the case, that the subsequent bill of sale was
bond fide given for the purpose of correcting some material error
in the prior bill of sale, and not for the purpose of evading this
Ordinance.
10.-(i) A bill of sale shall be attested and registered under
this Ordinance in the following manner:-
(a) the execution of the bill by the grantor shall be attested
by one or more credible witnesses, not being a party or parties
thereto
(b) the bill, with every schedule or inventory thereto
annexed ot therein referred to, and also a true copy of the bill,
and of every such schedule or inventory, and of every attestation
of the execution of the bill, together with an affidavit of the
time of the bill being made or given and of its due execution
and attestation, and a description of the residence and occupa-
tion of the person making or giving the same (or, in case the
same is made or given by any person under or in the execution of
any process, then a description of the residence aud occupation
of the person against whom such process issued), and of every
attesting witness to the bill shall be presented to, and the said
copy and affidavit shall be filed with, the Registrar within seven
clear days after the making or giving of the bill; and
(c) if the bill is made or given subject to any defeasance,
condition, or declaration of trust not contained in the body
thereof, such defeasance, condition, or declaration shall be
deemed to be part of the bill, and shall be written on the same
paper or parchment therewith before the registration, and shall
be truly set forth in the copy filed under this Ordinance
therewith and as part thereof, otherwise the registration shall
be void.
(2) In case two or more bills of sale are given, comprising
in whole or in part any of the same chattels, they shall have
priority in the order of the date of their registration respectively
as regards such chattels.
(3) A transfer or assignment of a registered bill of sale
need not be registered.
IL-(i) The registration of a bill of sale must be renewed
once at least every five years, and if a period of five years elapses
from the registration or renewed registration of a bill of sale
without a renewal or further renewal, as the case may be, the
registration shall become void.
(2) The renewal of a registration shall be effected by filing
with the Registrar an affidavit stating the date of the bill of sale
and of the last registration thereof, and the names, residences,
and occupations of the parties thereto as stated therein, and
that the bill of sale is still a subsisting security.
(3) Ever), such affidavit may be in Form No. i in.the First
Schedule.
(4) A renewal of registration shall not become necessary by
reason only of. a transfer or assignment of a bill of sale.
12. Every bill of sate sliall have annexed thereto or oritten
thereunder a schedule containing an inventory of the personal
chattels comprised in the bill of sale ; and such bill of sale, save
as hereinafter mentioned, shall have. effect onk. in respect of
the personal chattels specificall ' x- described in the said schedule,
and shall be void, except as a-ainst the grantor. in respect of
anxl per!~onal chattels not so specificalIv described.
13. Save as hereinafter -mentioned, a bill of sale shall be
void, except as against the grantor, in respect of any personal
chattels specifically described in the schedule thereto of which
the grantor was not the true owner at the time of the execution
of the bill of sale.
14. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall render a bill of
sale void in respect of any of the following things:-
(i) any growing crops separately assigned or charged where
such crops were actually growing at the time when the bill of
sale ivas executed; and
(2) any fixtures separately assigned or charged and any
plant or trade machinery where such fixtures, plant, or trade
machinery are or is used in, attached to, or brought upon any
land, farm, factory, workshop, shop, house, warehouse, or other
place in substitution for any of the like fixtures, plant, or trade
machinery specifically described in the schedule to such bill of
sale.
15. Personal chattels assigned under a bill of sale shall not
be liable to 'be seized or taken possession of by the grantee for
any other than the following causes:-
(i) if the grantor makes default in payment of the sum or
sums of money thereby secured at the time therein provided for
payment or in the performance of any covenant or agreement
contained in the bill of sale and necessary for maintaining the
security ; or
(2) if the grantor becomes a bankrupt or suffers the said
goods or any of them to be distrained for rent, rates, or taxes;
or
(3) if the grantor fraudulently either removes or suffers the
said goods or any of them to be removed from the premises:
or
(4) if the grantor does riot, without reasonable excuse, upon
demand in writing by the grantee, produce to him his last receipts
for rent, rates, and taxes; or
(,5) if execution has been levied against the goods of the
grantor under any judgment at law:
Provided that the grantor may, within five days from the seizure
or taking possession of any chattels on account of any of the
above-mentioned causes, apply to the court or judge who may,
if satisfied that, by payment of money or otherwise, the said
cause of seizure no longer exists, restrain the grantee from
removing or selling the said chattels or may make such other
order as may seem just.
16. A bill of sale made or given by way of security for the
payment of money by the grantor thereof shall be void unless
made in accordance with Form No. 2 in the First Schedule.
17. Every bill of sale made or given in consideration of any.
sum under one hundred and fifty dollars shall be void.
18. All personal chattels seized or of which possession is
taken under or by virtue of any bill of sale shall remain on the
premises where they were so seized or so taken possession of,
and shall not be removed or sold until after the expiration of
five clear days from the day they were so seized or so taken
possession oi.
19. A bill of sale to which this Ordinance applies shall be
no protection in respect of personai chattels included in such
bill of sale which, but for such bill of sale, would have been
liable to distress under a warrant or order for the recovery of
rates and taxes.
20.-(1) The Registrar shall keep a book (in this Ordinance
called ' the register ') for the purposes of this Ordinance, and
shall, on the filing of any bill of sale or copy under this
Ordinance, enter therein, in Form No. 3 in the First Schedule
or in any other- prescribed form, the name, residence, and
occupation of the person by whom the bill was made or given,
or, in case the same was made or given by any person under
or in the execution of process, then the name, residence, and
occupation of the person against whom such process was issued,
and also the name of the person to whom or in whose favour
the bill was given, and the other particulars shown in the said
form or to be prescribed under this Ordinance, and shall number
all such bills registered In each year consecutively, according
to the respective dates of their registration.
(2) On the registration of any affidavit of renewal, the like
entry shall be made, with the addition of the date and number
Qf the last previous entry relating to-the. same bill, and the bill
of sale or copy originally filed shall be thereupon marked with
the number affixed to such affidavit of renewal.
(3) The Registrar shall also keep an index of the names of
the grantors of 'registered bills. of sale with reference. to entries
in the register of the bills of sale given by each grantor.
(4) Such index shall be arranged in divisions corresponding
with the letters of the alphabet, so that all grantors whose
surnames begin with the same letter (and no others) shall be
comprised in one division, but the arrangement within each such
division need not be alphabetical.
21. A judge on being satisfied that the omission to register
a bill of sale or an affidavit of renewal thereof within the time
prescribed by this Ordinance, or the omission or mis-statement
of the name, residence, or occupation of any person, was
accidental or due to inadvertence, may order such omission or
mis-statement to be rectified by the insertion in the register of
the. true name, residence, or occupation, or by extending the
time for such registration, on such terms and conditions, if any,
as to security, notice by advertisement or otherwise, or as to any
other matter, as he thinks fit to direct.
22. Subject to and in accordance with any rules to be made
under this Ordinance, the Registrar may order a memorandum
of satisfaction to be written upon any registered copy of a bill
of sale, on the prescribed evidence being given that the debt,
if any, for which such bill of sale was -made or given has been
satisfied or discharged.
. 23.~(i) Any person shall be entitled to have an office copy
or.extract of any registered bill of sale and affidavit of execution
filed therewith, or copy thereof, and of any affidavit filed there-
with, or registered affidavit of renewal, on paving for the same
at tlie like rate as for office copies of judgments of the Supreme
Cou rt.
(2) Any copy of a registered bill of sale, and affidavit
purporting to be an office copy thereof, shall, in all courts
and before all arbitrators or other persons, be admitted as
p7imd facie evidence thereof and of the fact and date of regis-
tration as shown thereon.
(3) Any person shall be entitled at all reasonable Cimes to
seatch the register on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents,
subject to such regulations as may be prescribed, and shall
be entitled at all reasonable times to inspect, examine, and
make extracts from any and every registered bill of sale, with-
out being required to make a written application or to specify
any particulars in reference thereto, on payment of a fee of
twenty-five cents for each bill of sate inspected: Provided that
the said extracts shall be limited to the dates of execution,
registration, renewal of registration, and satisfaction, to the
names, addresses and occupations of t:ie parties, to the amount
of the consideration, and to any further particulars prescribed
by any rules made under this Ordinance.
[s. 24, rep. No. 21 Of 1922.]
25. The fees mentioned in the Second Schedule and such
,other fees as may be hereafter prescribed, shall be paid to the
Registrar.
26.-(1) Rules for the purposes of this Ordinance may be
made by the like persons and in the like manner in which rules
may be made under the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873.
(2) Until altered, added to, or annulled, the rules contained
in the Third Schedule shall be the rules under this Ordinance.
27. When the time for registering a bill of sale expires
on a Sundav or other day on which the offices of the Supreme
Court are closed, such r,-,-istration shall be valid if made on the
next following day on which the offices are open.
28. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to any debentures
issued by any mortgage, loan, or other incorporated company
and secured upon the capital, stock, or goods, chattels, and
effects of such company.
F1R.ST SCHEDULE.
Form No. 1. 18.11.1
Affidavit of renewal.
1, A. B., of , do swear that a bill of sale,
bearing date the day of 1 19 1 and made
between [insert names and descriptions of the parties in the original
bill ol salel and which said bill of sale [or and a copy of which said
bill of sale, as the case may be 1 was registered on the day of
19 is still a subsisting security.
Sworn, etc.
FormNo. 2. [S. 16.
BX of sale.
This Indenture made the day of 19
between A.B., ofof the one part and C.D., of
of the other part, witnesseth that, in considera-
tion of the sum of $now paid to A.B. by C.D., the
receipt of which sum the said A.B. hereby acknowledges [or whatever
else the consideration inay be], he, the said A.B. doth hereby assign
unto C.D., his executors, administra tors, and assigns, all and singular
the several chattels and things specifically described in the schedule
hereto annexed by way of security for the payment of the sum of
$ and interest thereon at the rate ofper cent.
per arinurn [or whatever else 7nay be the rate]. And the said A.B.
doth further agree and declare that he will duly pay to the said
C.D. the principal sum aforesaid, together with the interest then
due, by equal payments of $ on the day of
' 19 [or whatever else may be the stipulated
time or times of paymenti.And the said A.B. doth also aaree with
the said C.D. that he will [Itere insert term as to insurance, cl payment
of rent, or otherwise, which the parties may agree to for the main-
tenance or defeasance Of VIC $CCUT.ityl :Provided -always that the
chattels hereby assigned shall not be liable to seizure or to be taken
po-session of by the said C.D. for any cause other than those
specified in section 15 of the Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886,
In witness, etc.
Signed and sealed by the said A.B. in the presence of me, E.F.
[add witness's name, addre89, and description].
Foitm No. 3.
RegWer.
Satis- By whom given (or against l~lu of
fac- Num- whom process issued). To Nature Mtd of 'egistra
tion ~hom ofDate. regi a- tion of
her. instru- 81r affidavit
enter- i_ Occup. .....ti6
ed. Naine. a. given.mellt, .....of
'I', tion. ...... renewal.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
TABLE OF FEES. Is. 25.]
1. For filing a bill of sale .....$ 0.50
2. For filina the affidavit of executiofi of a bill of sale 0.50
0
3. For the affidavit used for the purpose of re-registering
a bill of sale (to include the fee for filing) 1.25
4. For an official certificate of the result of a search in one
name in any register or index under the custody of the
Registrar of bills of sale .......1.25
5. For every additional name, if included in the same
certificate ........................... 0.50
6. For a duplicate copy or certificate, if not more than
3 folios ...........................0.25
7. For every additional folio ......0.12
8. For a continuation search, if made within 14 days of
the date of the official certificate, (the result to be
indorsed on the certificate) .......0.25
9. For an affidavit verifying satisfaction 1.00
10. For a summons .......t .........4,00
11. For entering a memorandum of satisfaction 1,00
THIRD SCHEDULE.
BULES. [s. 26.1
1. A memorandum of satisfaction way be ordered to be written Mernoran-
upon a registered copy of a bill of sale on a consent to the satiS- durn of satis-
faction, signed by the person entitled to the benefit of the bill faction of
0 bill of sale.
of sale ' and verified by affidavit being produced to the Registrar It. 8. C. 1937.
and filed in the Supreme Court. 0. 61 r. 26.
* As amended by G.N. 451 of 1931 [17,7.31).
2. Where this consent cannot be obtained, the Registrar may, on
application by summons, and on hearing the person entitled to the benefit of
the bill of sale or on affidavit of service of the summons on that person, and
in either case on proof, to the satisfaction of the Registrar, that the debt, if
any, for which the bill of sale was made has been satisfied or discharged,
order a memorandum
of satisfaction to he written upon a registered copy thereof.
3. If the attesting witness and deponent is a solicitor, and described as
such, the entry of the satisfaction will be directed by the Registrar (the
papers being otherwise correct) as of course; but in special circumstances
the Registrar may accept any other deponent, if satisfied that he is a proper.
person to attest and verify the signature and consent.
[Originally No. 12 of 1886. Law Rev. Ord., 1937.] Short title. Interpretation. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 31, s. 4. 45 & 46 Vict c. 43, s. 3. 54 & 55 Vict. C. 35, s. 1. 53 & 54 Vict. C. 53, s. 2. Ordinance No. 10 of 1931. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 4. Application of the Ordinance. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 3. Application of the Ordinance to trade machinery. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 5. Certain instruments giving power of distress to be subject to the Ordinance. 41 & 42 Vict c. 31, s. 6. Fixtures or growing crops not to be deemed separately assigned when the land passes by same instrument. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 7. Avoidance of bill of sale unless attested and registered. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 8. Avoidance of certain duplicate bills of sale. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 9. Mode of registering bills of sale. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 10; 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 10. Renewal of registration. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 11. First Schedule. Form No. 1. Bill of sale to have schedule of property attached. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 4. Bill of sale not to affect after acquired property. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 5. Exception as to certain things. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 6. Limitation of causes of seizure. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 7. Form of bill of sale. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 9. First Schedule. Form No. 2. Avoidance of bill of sale under $150. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 12. Rule as to situation and sale of chattels. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 13. Bill of sale not to protect chattels against rates and taxes. 45 & 46 Vict. c. 43, s. 14. Form of register. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 31, s. 12. First Schedule. Form No. 3. Rectification of register. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 14. Entry of satisfaction. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 15. Right to have copies. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 16. 45 & 46 Vict. c. 43, s. 16. Fees 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 18. Second Schedule. Making of rules. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 21. Ordinance No. 3 of 1873, s. 32. Third Schedule. Time of registration 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 22. Exclusion of certain debentures. 45 & 46 Vict c. 43, s. 17. Memorandum of satisfaction of bill of sale. R.S.C. 1937. O. 61 r. 26. Order for memorandum of satisfaction of bill of sale. R.S.C. 1937. O. 61 r. 27. Rule where attesting witness is a solicitor. Practice Masters' Rules, 1921, r. 25.
Abstract
[Originally No. 12 of 1886. Law Rev. Ord., 1937.] Short title. Interpretation. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 31, s. 4. 45 & 46 Vict c. 43, s. 3. 54 & 55 Vict. C. 35, s. 1. 53 & 54 Vict. C. 53, s. 2. Ordinance No. 10 of 1931. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 4. Application of the Ordinance. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 3. Application of the Ordinance to trade machinery. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 5. Certain instruments giving power of distress to be subject to the Ordinance. 41 & 42 Vict c. 31, s. 6. Fixtures or growing crops not to be deemed separately assigned when the land passes by same instrument. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 7. Avoidance of bill of sale unless attested and registered. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 8. Avoidance of certain duplicate bills of sale. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 9. Mode of registering bills of sale. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 10; 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 10. Renewal of registration. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 11. First Schedule. Form No. 1. Bill of sale to have schedule of property attached. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 4. Bill of sale not to affect after acquired property. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 5. Exception as to certain things. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 6. Limitation of causes of seizure. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 7. Form of bill of sale. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 9. First Schedule. Form No. 2. Avoidance of bill of sale under $150. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 12. Rule as to situation and sale of chattels. 45 & 46 Vict. C. 43, s. 13. Bill of sale not to protect chattels against rates and taxes. 45 & 46 Vict. c. 43, s. 14. Form of register. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 31, s. 12. First Schedule. Form No. 3. Rectification of register. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 14. Entry of satisfaction. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 15. Right to have copies. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 16. 45 & 46 Vict. c. 43, s. 16. Fees 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 18. Second Schedule. Making of rules. 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 21. Ordinance No. 3 of 1873, s. 32. Third Schedule. Time of registration 41 & 42 Vict. C. 31, s. 22. Exclusion of certain debentures. 45 & 46 Vict c. 43, s. 17. Memorandum of satisfaction of bill of sale. R.S.C. 1937. O. 61 r. 26. Order for memorandum of satisfaction of bill of sale. R.S.C. 1937. O. 61 r. 27. Rule where attesting witness is a solicitor. Practice Masters' Rules, 1921, r. 25.
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Edition
1937
Volume
v1
Subsequent Cap No.
20
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 7 of 1886
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