Law of Property Amendment Act, 1860

Mode of registering.

2. The registry herein-before required of any writ of execution, or other due process on any judgment, statute, or recognizance, in order to bind a purchaser or mortgagee, shall be made by a memorandum or minute referring to the judgment, statute, or recognizance already registered, so as to connect the registry of the writ of execution or other process therewith; such memorandum or minute to be left with the senior master of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, who shall forthwith enter the particulars in a book in alphabetical order by the name of the person in whose behalf the judgment, statute, or recognizance upon which the writ of execution or other process issued was registered, and also the year and the day of the month when every such memorandum or minute is left with him; and such officer shall be entitled for any such registry to the sum of five shillings; and all persons shall be at liberty to search the same book, in addition to ail the other books in the same office, on payment of the sum of one shilling only: And all the provisions in this Act in regard to writs of execution or other process and the registry thereof, or otherwise relating thereto, shall extend, mutatis mutandis, to writs of execution or other due process issuing on judgments of the several Courts of Common Pleas of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham: But none of these provisions are to extend to Ireland.