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CHAPTER 144
VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

Short title.
Voluntary conveyance if bona fide not to be avoided under 27 Elizabeth, c. 4.
Saving transactions completed before passing of Act.
Interpretation.

CHAPTER 144

VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES

An Act relating to the avoidance of voluntary conveyances.

12 of 1905

[Commencement 18th April, 1905]

1. This Act may be cited as the Voluntary Conveyances Act.

Short title.

2. Subject as hereinafter mentioned no voluntary conveyance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, if in fact made bona fide and without any fraudulent intent, shall hereafter be deemed fraudulent or covinous within the meaning of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom twenty-seventh Elizabeth, chapter four, by reason of any subsequent purchase for value, or be defeated under any of the provisions of the said Act by a conveyance made upon any such purchase, any rule of law notwithstanding.

Voluntary conveyances if bona fide not to be avoided under 27 Elizabeth, c. 4.

3. This Act does not apply in any case in which the author of a voluntary conveyance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments has subsequently, but before the passing of this Act, disposed of or dealt with the same lands, tenements or hereditaments to or in favour of a purchaser for value.

Saving transactions completed before passing of Act.

4. In this Act "conveyance" includes every mode of disposition mentioned or referred to in the said Act of Elizabeth.

Interpretation.


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