CHAPTER XXX

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

WHEREAS great losses and evils hâve been experienced, from secret and fraudulent conveyances of real estâtes, 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 ail titles to real or immoveable estâtes, and of ail charges and incumbrances on the same, would not only obviate thèse losses and evils for the future, but would also with some altération of the existing laws, whereby the removal of inconvénient and inexpedient restraints and burthens on the aliénation of real estâtes might be effected, greatly promote the agricultural and commercial interests of this Province, and advanee its improvement and prosperity ; — Be it therefore ordained and enacted by His Excellency the Goyernor of this Province of Lower Canada, by and with the advice and consent of the Spécial Council for the affairs of this Province, constituted and assembled by virtue and under the authority of An Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the firstyear of the Reign of Her présent Majesty,intituled, u An 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 présent Majesty, intituled, " An Act to amena1 An Act of the last " Session of Parliament, for making temporary provision for the " Government of Lower Canada" and alsoby 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 présent Majesty, intituled, " An Act to Re-unite the Provinces oj Upper (i and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada f and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, and

A. D. 1S41. Anno quarto Victoria? Reginœ. C. 30. 3