Registry of Deeds (Ireland) Act 1822

REGISTRY OF DEEDS (IRELAND) ACT 1822

CAP. CXVI.

An Act for the more convenient and effectual registering in Ireland Deeds executed in Great Britain. [5th August 1822.]

How Deeds executed in Great Britain shall be registered in Ireland.

FOR facilitating the Registry of Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills executed in Great Britain, which it may be necessary to register in Ireland, and for the more effectual Registry thereof, be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all Deeds, Conveyances, or Wills required to be registered in Ireland in and by an Act passed by the Parliament of Ireland in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the public registering of all Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any other Act now in force, the Memorial whereof shall be proved in England, shall be registered in the Manner following; that is to say, the Memorial of the Deed, Conveyance, or Will so to be registered in Ireland, being prepared, signed, sealed, and attested by such Person and Persons, and in such Manner and Form as by the Act so made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne hath or have been in that behalf prescribed and directed, One of the Witnesses to said Memorial, being also a Witness to the Deed, Instrument, or Writing therein mentioned, shall prove the Execution of said Memorial upon Oath, to be made before One of the Extraordinary Commissioners appointed by the Court of Chancery in Ireland for taking Affidavits in Great Britain, and who are respectively hereby empowered and required to administer such Oath, and shall at the same Time produce unto the said Extraordinary Commissioner the Deed, Instrument, or Writing in the said Memorial mentioned, together with true Copy of said Memorial, such Copy to be at the same Time verified in like Manner upon Oath, to be made by such Witness before said Extraordinary Commissioner, who is hereby empowers and required to administer the same, which Copy and Oath respectively are not to be charged or chargeable with any Stamp Duty and which Oaths shall respectively be in the Words and Form following:

OATH of the Execution of the Memorial, and to be subscribed or annexed to said Memorial.

Oath of the Execution of the Memorial.

‘THE above-named A. B. of in maketh Oath, that he is a subscribing Witness to the Deed of which the above [within or annexed] Writing is a Memorial, and saw the same duly executed by, and that he this Deponent is also a subscribing Witness to the above [within or annexed] Memorial, and saw the same duly executed by the above named; and saith the Name A. B., subscribed as a Witness to the Execution of the said Deed and Memorial respectively, is the proper Name, and of the Handwriting of this Deponent; and this Deponent saith, that at or immediately before the Time of his deposing hereto, he this Deponent delivered the said Deed and Memorial, together with a true Copy of the said Memorial, to, One of the Extraordinary Commissioners of the Court of Chancery in Ireland for taking Affidavits in Great Britain, in the Office of the said in upon this Day the Day of One thousand eight, hundred and A. B. Sworn before me in my Office in this Day of One thousand eight hundred and C. D. One of the Extraordinary Commissioners of the Court of Chancery of Ireland for taking Affidavits in Great Britain.’

OATH to be made by the Witness to verify the Copy of the Memorial, and to be subscribed or annexed to the said Copy.

Oath of the Verification of a Copy.

‘I A.B. of in make Oath, that the foregoing [or the within or annexed] Writing is a true Copy of a certain Memorial which was duly executed by to which Memorial this Deponent is a subscribing Witness, and which said Memorial this Deponent at the Time of his deposing hereto delivered, together with the Deed, Instrument, or Writing whereof the same is a Memorial, to One of the Extraordinary Commissioners of the Court of Chancery in Ireland for taking Affidavits in Great Britain, in the Office of the said in and this Deponent at the same Time, and therewith, delivered to the said the foregoing [or within or annexed] Copy of the said Memorial. A. B. Sworn before me in my Office in this Day of One thousand eight hundred and C.D. One of the Extraordinary Commissioners of the Court of Chancery in Ireland for taking Affidavits in Great Britain.’