Registration of Deeds Act 1707
REGISTRATION OF DEEDS ACT 1707 | ||
CHAP. II. | ||
An Act for the publick registring of all deeds, conveyances, and wills that shall be made of any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments. | ||
2 & 3 Anne 4 Eng. 5 Anne 18. Eng. | ||
6 Anne 35 Eng. | ||
7 Anne 20 Eng. | ||
8 Anne 10 8 G. 1. 15. 5 G. 2. 4. | ||
To secure purchasers and prevent forgeries, & frequently practised, especially by papists, | ||
A publick office for registring memorials of deeds and wills kept in Dublin, | ||
register appointed by the Queen, | ||
during good behaviour. | ||
FOR securing purchasers, preventing forgeries, and fraudulent gifts and conveyances of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, which have been frequently practised in this kingdom, especially by papists, to the great prejudice of the protestant interest thereof, and for settling and establishing a certain method with proper rules and directions for registring a memorial of all deeds and conveyances, which from and after the twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight shall be made and executed, and of all wills and devises in writing made, or to be made, and published, where the devisor or testatrix shall die after the said twenty fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and eight, for or concerning any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in this kingdom; We pray that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the Queen’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 one publick office for registring memorials of deeds and conveyances, wills and devises, shall be established and kept in the city of Dublin, to be managed and executed by a fit and able person, or his sufficient deputy; such person to be from time to time nominated and appointed by the Queen’s Majesty, her heirs and successors, and to continue in the said office for so long time as he shall faithfully and honestly demean himself therein. |