Yorkshire Registries Act 1884

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Short title

3. 2. Commencement of Act

4. 3. Interpretation

5. Registration

   1. 4. Assurances and wills may be registered

   2. 5. Mode of registration

   3. 6. Memorials

   4. 7. Memorandum of lien or charge

   5. 8. Deeds, &c. not to be enrolled unless originals, &c. produced

   6. 9. Endorsement on deed or will after registration

   7. 10. Caveats

   8. 11. Notices of wills not proved, &c

   9. 12. Affidavit of intestacy

   10. 13. Where by any Act any lands are vested upon the payment of money, &c. an affidavit of the vesting may be registered

   11. 14. Priority of assurances and wills

   12. 15. Registration to be actual notice

   13. 16. Protection by legal estate and tacking not to be allowed

   14. 17. Rights of purchasers to relief to be the same as those of the persons through whom they claim

   15. 18. Registration

   16. 19. Searches may be made and copies taken by any person

   17. 20. Official searches

   18. 21. Record of official searches

   19. 22. Certified copies

   20. 23. Protection of solicitors, trustees, &c. in the case of certificates, &c

   21. 24. Pages of register to be numbered and signed

   22. 25. Rectification of register by Court

   23. 26. Entries in respect of statutory receipts

   24. 27. Registrar need not register instrument not duly stamped

   25. 28. Act not to extend to copyhold or certain leasehold interest

   26. 29. Shares in companies not to be affected

   27. 30. Saving as to Crown lands

6. Register Offices

   1. 31. Offices for the registration of deeds

   2. 32. Seal of register office

   3. 33. Vesting of register offices, &c. in clerk of peace

   4. 34. Building, &c. of offices

   5. 35. Rules

   6. 36. Existing registrars to be first registrars under this Act

   7. 37. Appointment of officers, &c

   8. 38. Fees

   9. 39. Unauthorised fees not to be taken

   10. 40. Application of fees

   11. 41. Accounts

   12. 42. Expenses to be defrayed out of county rate

7. Existing Registries

   1. 43. Registering of memorials, &c. where assurance, &c. executed before commencement of Act, &c

   2. 44. Books, &c. connected with old registries

   3. 45. Copies of old registers

8. Miscellaneous

   1. 46. Frauds by registrar, &c

   2. 47. Falsely swearing under this Act to be punished as perjury

   3. 48. Swearing of affidavits

   4. 49. Actions for neglect, &c. to be brought against registrar

   5. 50. Protection of local authority and the officers from personal liability

   6. 51. Repeal

9. The SCHEDULES referred to in the foregoing Act

   1. FIRST SCHEDULE

   2. SECOND SCHEDULE