CHAPTER XXX

An Ordinance to prescribe and regulate the Registering of Titles to Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, Real or Immoveable Estates, and of Charges and Incumbrances on the same : and for the alteration and improvement of the law, in certain particulars, in relation to the Alienation and Hypothecation of Real Estates, and the Rights and Interest acquired therein.

WVESEE:S great losses and evils have been experienced,

from secret and fraudulent conveyances of real estates, and incumbrances on the same, and from the uncertainty and insecurity of titles to lands in this Province, to the manifest injury, and occasional ruin of purchasers, creditors, and others ; And whereas the registering of all titles to real or immoveable estates, and of all charges and incumbrances on the same, would not only obviate these losses and evils for the future, but would also with some alteration of the existing laws, whereby the removal of inconvenient and inexpedient restraints and burthens on the alienation of real estates might be effected, greatly promote the agricultural and commercial interests of this Province, and advance its improvement and prosperity —Be it therefore ordained and enacted by His Excellency the Governor of this Province of Lower Canada, by and with tke advice and consent of the Special Council for the aflairs of this Province, constituted and assembled by virtue and under the authority of An Âct of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the first year of the Reiïgn of Her present Majesty.intituled, % .{n Act to make temporary provisions for “the Government of Lower Canada,” and also by virtue and under the authority of a certain other Act of the same Parliament, passed in the Session held in the second and third years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, < /n Act to amend An Act of the last Session of Parliament, for making temporary prousion for the & Governmenbkof Lower Canada,” and also by virtue and under the authority of a certain other Act of the same Parliament, passed in the session held in the third and fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, ‘ ./n Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada ÿ? andit is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, and

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A.D.1841. Anno quarto Victoriæ Reginæ. C. 30,