Land Transfer.

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An Act compiling the Land Transfer Act-, 1908, and its Amendments. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: — 1. (1.) This Act may be cited as the Land Transfer Act, 1915. (2.) The Property Law Act, 1908, shall, as regards land under this Act, be read and construed so as not to conflict with the provisions of this Act. 2. In this Act, and in all instruments purporting to be made and executed under this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, — " Bankruptcy " means the vesting in any person or persons of any estate or interest of a debtor for the benefit of creditors generally, by deed of arrangement or otherwise, under authority of any Court of competent jurisdiction : " Crown grant " means the grant of any land by the Crown, and includes certificates of title issued in lieu of grant: " Dealing " means and includes every transfer, transmission, mortgage, lease, or incumbrance of any estate or interest under this Act: " District " means a land registration district under this Act : " Estate or interest " means and includes every estate in land, also any mortgage or charge on land under this Act : " Former Land Transfer Act " means the Land Transfer Act, 1908, and the Land Transfer Act, 1885, and all amendments of either of those Acts, and includes every Act repealed by those Acts : " Indorsement," in addition to its ordinary meaning, includes anything written upon or at the foot of any document for giving effect to any of the purposes of this Act : " Instrument " means and includes any printed or written document, map, or plan relating to the transfer of or other dealing with land, or evidencing title thereto : " Land " extends to and includes messuages, tenements, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of every kind and description, and every estate or interest therein, together with all paths, passages, ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, easements, and privileges thereunto appertaining, plantations, gardens, mines, minerals, and quarries, and all trees and timber thereon or thereunder lying or being, unless specially excepted : " Land Revenue Receiver's receipt" includes any document, signed by competent authority, evidencing a contract for alienation of land by the Crown in fee-simple : " Mortgage " means and includes any charge on land created under the provisions of this Act for securing— (a.) The repayment of a loan or satisfaction of an existing debt; (b.) The repayment of future advances, or payment or satisfaction of any future or unascertained debt or liability, contingent or otherwise ; (c.) The payment to the holders for the time being of any bonds, debentures, promissory notes, or other securities, negotiable or otherwise, made or issued by the mortgagor before or after the creation of such charge ;

Title.

Short Title. Property Law Act not to confiict with this Act. 1908, No. 99, s'. I (3) Interpretation, lb., s. 2

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