Law of Property Amendment Act, 1860

Protection of heirs and executors, &c. against unregistered judgments.

3. [Recital of 4 & 5 Will. & Mar. c. 20.] No judgment which has not already been or which shall not hereafter be entered or docketed under the several Acts now in force, and which passed subsequently to the said Act of the fourth and fifth years of King William and Queen Mary, so as to bind lands, tenements, or hereditaments as against purchasers, mortgagees, or creditors, shall have any preference against heirs, executors, or administrators in their administration of their ancestors, testators, or intestates estates.