BILLS OF SALE ORDINANCE

BILLS OF SALE ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

BILLS OF SALE ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 20





CHAPTER 20

BILLS OF SALE ORDINANCE

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

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1. Short title ............... ... ... . 2

2. Interpretation ............................ . .. 2

3. Application of the Ordinance ... .. ... ... . ... ... ... ... 3
4. Application of the Ordinance to trade machinery . . . ... ... ... ... ...
5. Certain instruments giving power of distress to be subject to the Ordinance 4
6. Fixtures or growing crops not deemed separately assigned v, hen land passes ... 4
7. Avoidance of bill of sale unless attested and registered ... ... ... ... 4
8. Avoidance of certain duplicate bills of sate ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5
9. Mode of registering bills of sale ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5
10.Renewal of registration ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6
11.Bill of sale to have schedule of properly attached ... ... ... ... ... 7
12.Bill of sale not to affect after acquired property . 1 . ... ... ... ... 7
13.Exception as to certain things ... ... . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7
14.Limitation of causes of seizure ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7
15.Form of bill of sale . ... ... ... ... . 1 . - - . ... ... ... ... 8
16.Avoidance of bill of sale under S 150 ... ... ... ... ... . ... ... ... ... 8
17.Rule as to situation and sale of chattels ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8
is.Bill of sale not to protect chattels against rates and taxes ... .. ... ... 8
19.Form of register . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8
20.Rectification of register ... ... ... ... ... . 1 . ... ... ... ... ... ... 9
21.Entry of satisfaction ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 9
22.Right to have copies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 9
23.Fees ... ... ... ... ... ... - ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10
24.Making of rules ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10
25.Time of registration ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10
26.Exclusion of certain debentures ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10
Schedule.Forms ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . . . ... ... ... ... ... ... 10





CHAPTER 20

BILLS OF SALE

To consolidate and Amend the law for preventing frauds upon creditors by
secret bills of sale of personal chattels.

[12 Jul1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Sale Ordinance.
(Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 6)

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires

'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 persona chattels, or to any charge or
security thereon. is conferred, but does not include the following
documents: 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 that-

(a) [Deleted, 55 of 1967 s. 2]

(b)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 paragraph shall affect the
operation of section 43 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, in
respect of any goods comprised





in any such instrument as is hereinbefore described, if
such goods would but for 'this paragraph be goods
within the meaning of that section: (Added, 22 of

1914, ss. 2 and 3.Amended. 5 of 1924 s. 20)

'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 Iona as
they remain or are in or upon any house, mill, warehouse. 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;

'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under the provisions of
this Ordinance;

'Registrar' means the Registrar of the Supreme Court.

(Amended, 50 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)

(Amended, 50 of' 1911, s. 4)

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 Hong Kong comprised in or made subject
to such bill of sale.
(Amended, 51 of 191 1; 62 of 1911, Schedule and 33 of 1985, s. 2)

4. (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
other personal chattels shall be deemed to be a bill of sale within the
meaning of this Ordinance. (Amended,50 of 1911,s.

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, 'trade machinery' means
the machinery used in or attached to any factory or workshops

(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 motivepowers; 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

(e)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. (Amended, 51 of 1911; 62 of
1911, Schedule, and 5 of 1924, Schedule)

(Amended, 19 of 1911)

5. Every attornment, instrument, or 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 possession, has demised to the mortgagor as his tenant at a
fair and reasonable rent.

6. 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 thay 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 person.

7. Every bill of sale shall be duly attested and shall be registered
within 7 clear days after the execution thereof, or, if it is executed in any
place out of Hong Along, then within 7 clear days after the time at
which it would, in the course of post, arrive in Hong Kong 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





(a)in the case of a bill of sale made or given by way of security for
the payment of money, be void in respect of the chattels
comprised therein; and

(b)in the case of any other bill of sale, as against all trustees or
assignees of the estate of the person whose chattels, or any of
them, are comprised in such bill of sale under the law relating to
bankruptcy or liquidation, or under any assignment for the
benefit of the creditors of such person, and also as against all
bailiffs and other persons seizing any chattels comprised in
such bill of sale, in the execution of any process of any court
authorizing the seizure of the chattels of the person by whom or
of whose chattels such bill has been made, and also as against
every person on whose behalf such process shall have been
issued, be deemed fraudulent and void so far as regards the
property in or right to possession of any chattels comprised in
such bill of sale which, at or after the time of filing the petition
for bankruptcy or liquidation, or of the execution of such
assignment, or of executing such process, as the case may be,
and after the expiration of such 7 clear days are in the
possession or apparent possession of the person making such
bill of sale, or of any person against whom the process has
been issued under or in the execution of which such bill has
been made or given, as the case may be.

(Amended, 55 of 1967, s. 3 and 33 of 1985, s. 3)

8. Where a subsequent bill of sale is executed within or on the
expiration of 7 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 same 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 bona 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.

9. (1) A bill of sale shall be attested and registered under this
Ordinance in the following manner

(a) in the case of-

(i) a bill of sale made or given by way of security for the
payment of money, the execution of the bill by the grantor
shall be witnessed by one or more credible witnesses, not
being a party or parties thereto; and

(ii) any other bill of sale, the execution of the bill by the
grantor shall be witnessed by a solicitor of the Supreme Court
if it is executed in Hong Kong or by a Commissioner to
administer oaths in the Supreme Court if it is executed





in any place outside of Hong Kong, and the attestation shall
state that before the execution of the bill the effect thereof has
been explained to the grantor by the attesting solicitor or
Commissioner, as the case may be; (Replaced, 55 of 1967, s. 4)

(b)the bill, with every schedule or inventory thereto annexed or
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 occupation
of the person making or giving the same (or, in case the same
is made or given by any person under or in execution of any
process, then a description of the residence and 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 7
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 2 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.

10. (1) The registration of a bill of sale must be renewed once at
least every 5 years, and if a period of 5 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.
(Amended, 51 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)

(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) Every such affidavit may be in Form 1 in the Schedule.
(Amended, 50 of 1911, s. 4)

(4) A renewal of registration shall not become necessary by reason
only of a transfer or assignment of a bill of sale.





11. Every bill of sale shall have annexed thereto or written
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 only in respect of the personal chattels
specifically described in the said schedule, and shall be void, except as
against the grantor, in respect of any personal chattels not so
specifically described.

12. 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.

13. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall render a bill of sale void
in respect of any of the following things

(a)any growing crops separately assigned or charged where
such crops were actually growing at the time when the bill of
sale was executed; and

(b)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.

14. Personal chattels assigned under any bill of sale made or given
by way of security for the payment of money shall not be liable to be
seized or taken possession of by the grantee for any other than the
following causes- (Amended, 55 of 1967, s. 5)

(a)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

(b)if the grantor becomes a bankrupt or suffers the said goods or
any of them to be distrained for rent, rates, or taxes; or

(c)if the grantor fraudulently either removes or suffers the said
goods or any of them to be removed from the premises; or

(d)if the grantor does not, without reasonable excuse, upon
demand in writing by the grantee, produce to him his last
receipts for rent, rates, and taxes; or

(e)if execution has been levied against the goods of the grantor
under any judgment at law:

Provided that the grantor may, within 5 days from the seizure or
taking possession of any chattels on account of any of the
abovementioned 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.
(Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule, and 63 of
1911, Schedule)

15. 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 2 in the Schedule.
(Amended, 50 of 1911, s. 4)

16. Every bill of sale made or given by way of security for the
payment of money in consideration of any sum under 5 150 shall be
void.
(Amended, 55 of 1967, s. 6)

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 5 clear days from the
day they were so seized or so taken possession of.
(Amended, 50 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)

18. A bill of sale to which this Ordinance applies shall be no
protection in respect of personal 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.

19. (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 3 in the 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. (Amended, 50 of 1911, s. 4)

(2) On the registration of any affidavit of renewal, the like
entry shall be made, with the addition of the date and number of 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. (Amended, 50 of
1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)





(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.
(Amended, 50 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)

20. 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.

(Amended, 50 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)

21. 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.

(Amended, 50 of 1911, and 62 of 1911, Schedule)

22. (1) 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 therewith, or
registered affidavit of renewal, on paying for the same at the like rate as
for office copies of judgments of the Supreme Court.

(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 prima facie evidence thereof and of the
fact and date of registration as shown thereon.

(3) Any person shall be entitled at all reasonable times to search the
register on payment of a fee prescribed in the Bills of Sale (Fees)
Regulations, and shall be entitled at all reasonable times to inspect,
examine, and make extracts from any and every registered bill of sale
made or given by way of security for the payment of money, without
being required to make a written application or to specify any particulars
in reference thereto, on payment of a fee prescribed in the Bills of Sale
(Fees) Regulations: (Amended, 33 of 1985.s. 4)

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 the parties, to the amount of the
consideration, and to any further particulars prescribed by any rules
made under this Ordinance. (Amended, 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911,
Schedule; 9 of 1950, Schedule, and 55 of 1967, s. 7)





23. The Governor in Council may by regulation provide for fees to
be taken by the Registrar.

(Replaced, 9 of 1950, Schedule)

24. 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.

(Amended, 50 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule, and 20 of 1948,
s. 4)

25. When the time for registering a bill of sale expires on a Sunday
or other day on which the offices of the Supreme Court are closed, such
registration shall be valid if made on the next following day on which
the offices are open.

26. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to any debentures issued
by any manage, loan, or other incorporated company and secured upon
the capital, stock, or goods, chattels, and effects of such company.

SCHEDULE

FORM 1 [s. 10.]

Affidavit of renewal

I, A.B., of do swear that a bill of sale,
bearing date the day of 19 and made

between [insert names and descriptions of the parties in the original bill of sale] and
which said bill of sale [or and a copy of which said bill of sale, as the case may be]
was
registered on the day of '19

is still a subsisting security.

Sworn, etc.

FORM 2 [s. 15.]

Bill of sale

This Indenture made the day of 19

between A.B., ofof the one part and C.D.,
ofof the other part, witnesseth that, in consideration
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 may
be], he, the said A.B. doth hereby assign unto C.D., his executors, administrators,
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
5 and interest thereon at the rate ofper cent per
annum [or whatever else may 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 S on
the day of 19 [or whatever else may
be the stipulated time or times of payment] And the said A.B. doth also agree with the
said C.D. that he will there insert term as to insurance, payment of rent, or otherwise,
which the parties may agree to for the maintenance or defeasance of the security]:
Provided always that the chattels hereby assigned shall not be liable to seizure or to
be taken possession of by the said C.D. for any cause other than those specified in
section 14 of the Bills of Sale Ordinance.







In witness, etc.

Signed and sealed by the said A.B. in the presence of me, E.F.

[add witness's name, address, and description].





FORM 3 [s. 19.]

Register

By whom given (or against whom Date of
Satis-process issued) To Nature of D c Date of Registration

faction Number Whom Nature at registration of affidavit

entered Name Residence Occupation given instrument of renewal
Originally 12 of 1886. (Cap. 20, 1950 Ed.) 19 of 1911. 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 62 of 1911. 63 of 1911. 22 of 1914. 21 of 1922. 5 of 1924. 27 of 1937. 20 of 1948. 9 of 1950. 55 of 1967. 33 of 1985. Short title. Interpretation. 1878 c. 31, s. 4. 1891 c. 35, s. 1. 1890 c. 53, s. 2. (Cap. 6.) 1878 c. 31, s. 4. Application of the Ordinance. 1878 c. 31, s. 3. Application of the Ordinance to trade machinery. 1878 c. 31, s. 5. Certain instruments giving power of distress to be subject to the Ordinance. 1878 c. 31, s. 6. Fixtures or growing crops not deemed separately assigned when land passes. 1878 c. 31, s. 7. Avoidance of bill of sale unless attested and registered. 1882 c. 43, s. 8. Avoidance of certain duplicate bills of sale. 1878 c. 31, s. 9. Mode of registering bills of sale. 1878 c. 31, s. 10; 1882 c. 43, s. 10. Renewal of registration. 1878 c. 31, s. 11. Schedule, Form 1. Bill of sale to have schedule of property attached. 1882 c. 43, s. 4. Bill of sale not to affect after acquired property. 1882 c. 43, s. 5. Exception as to certain things. 1882 c. 43, s. 6. Limitation of causes of seizure. 1882 c. 43, s. 7. Form of bill of sale. 1882 c. 43, s. 9. Schedule, Form 2. Avoidance of bill of sale under $150. 1882 c. 43, s. 12. Rule as to situation and sale of chattels. 1882 c. 43, s. 13. Bill of sale not to protect chattels against rates and taxes. 1882 c. 43, s. 14. Form of register. 1878 c. 31, s. 12. Schedule, Form 3. Rectification of register. 1878 c. 31, s. 14. Entry of satisfaction. 1878 c. 31, s. 15. Right to have copies. 1878 c. 31, s. 16. 1882 c. 43, s. 16. (Cap. 20. sub. leg.) Fees. Making of rules. 1878 c. 31, s. 21. (Cap. 4.) Time of registration. 1878 c. 31, s. 22. Exclusion of certain debentures. 1882 c. 43, s. 17.

Originally 12 of 1886. (Cap. 20, 1950 Ed.) 19 of 1911. 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 62 of 1911. 63 of 1911. 22 of 1914. 21 of 1922. 5 of 1924. 27 of 1937. 20 of 1948. 9 of 1950. 55 of 1967. 33 of 1985. Short title. Interpretation. 1878 c. 31, s. 4. 1891 c. 35, s. 1. 1890 c. 53, s. 2. (Cap. 6.) 1878 c. 31, s. 4. Application of the Ordinance. 1878 c. 31, s. 3. Application of the Ordinance to trade machinery. 1878 c. 31, s. 5. Certain instruments giving power of distress to be subject to the Ordinance. 1878 c. 31, s. 6. Fixtures or growing crops not deemed separately assigned when land passes. 1878 c. 31, s. 7. Avoidance of bill of sale unless attested and registered. 1882 c. 43, s. 8. Avoidance of certain duplicate bills of sale. 1878 c. 31, s. 9. Mode of registering bills of sale. 1878 c. 31, s. 10; 1882 c. 43, s. 10. Renewal of registration. 1878 c. 31, s. 11. Schedule, Form 1. Bill of sale to have schedule of property attached. 1882 c. 43, s. 4. Bill of sale not to affect after acquired property. 1882 c. 43, s. 5. Exception as to certain things. 1882 c. 43, s. 6. Limitation of causes of seizure. 1882 c. 43, s. 7. Form of bill of sale. 1882 c. 43, s. 9. Schedule, Form 2. Avoidance of bill of sale under $150. 1882 c. 43, s. 12. Rule as to situation and sale of chattels. 1882 c. 43, s. 13. Bill of sale not to protect chattels against rates and taxes. 1882 c. 43, s. 14. Form of register. 1878 c. 31, s. 12. Schedule, Form 3. Rectification of register. 1878 c. 31, s. 14. Entry of satisfaction. 1878 c. 31, s. 15. Right to have copies. 1878 c. 31, s. 16. 1882 c. 43, s. 16. (Cap. 20. sub. leg.) Fees. Making of rules. 1878 c. 31, s. 21. (Cap. 4.) Time of registration. 1878 c. 31, s. 22. Exclusion of certain debentures. 1882 c. 43, s. 17.

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