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Recognizances, crown debts or bonds, &c. or acceptance of office, making officer’s lands liable under 21 & 22 Geo 3. (I.) c. 20. not to affect lands, &c. as against purchasers, &c. unless registered under this Act.
All persons to be at liberty to search all books handed over or kept under this Act
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11. No judgment, statute, or recognizance which shall hereafter be obtained or entered into in the name or upon the proper account of her Majesty, or inquisition upon which any debt shall be hereafter found due to her Majesty, or obligation or specialty which shall hereafter be made to her Majesty, or any acceptance of office which shall hereafter be accepted by officers whose lands shall thereby become liable for the payment and satisfaction of arrearages under the provisions of an Act passed in a session of Parliament holden in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act for the more speedy and effectual recovery of the King’s debts,” shall affect any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as to purchasers or mortgagees, unless and until a memorandum or minute, containing the name and the usual or last known place of abode, and the title, trade, or profession, of the person whose estate is intended to be affected thereby, and also in the case of any such judgment the court and the title of the cause in which such judgment shall have been obtained, and the date of such judgment, and the amount of the debt, damages, and costs thereby recovered, and also in the case of a statute or recognizance the sum for which the same was acknowledged, and before whom the same was acknowledged, and the date of the same, and also in the case of an inquisition the sum thereby found to be due, and the date of the same, and also in the case of an obligation or specialty the sum in which the obligor shall be bound, or for which the obligation or specialty shall be made, and the date of the same, and also in the case of acceptance of office the name of the office, and the time of the officer accepting the same, shall be left with such officer acting under this Act as aforesaid, who shall forthwith enter the same particulars in a book, to be intituled “The Index to Debtors and Accountants to the Crown,” in alphabetical order, by the name of the person whose estate is intended to be affected by such judgment, statute, or recognizance, inquisition, obligation, or specialty, or the acceptance of any office; . . . and all persons shall be at liberty to search the said book, and also the other books which are to be handed over as aforesaid, to the officer to be appointed under this Act, and also all the books which are to be kept under the provisions of this Act, or any or either of the said books. . . .
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