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Where question shall arise touching the title to any money, persons in possession deemed entitled.
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33. Where any question shall arise touching the title of any person to any money to be paid into the Bank of Ireland, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General of the said Court of Chancery, in pursuance of this Act, for the purchase of any lands, grounds, houses, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any estate, right, or interest in the land, ground, houses, tenements, or hereditaments to be purchased in pursuance thereof, or to any stocks, funds, or annuities to be purchased with any such money, or to the dividends or interest of any such stocks, funds, or annuities, the person or persons who shall have been in possession of any such land, ground, houses, tenements, or hereditaments at the time of such purchase, and all persons claiming under such person or persons, or under the possession of such person or persons, shall be deemed and taken to have been lawfully entitled to such land, ground, houses, tenements, or hereditaments, according to such possession, until the contrary shall be shown to the satisfaction of the said Court of Chancery; and the dividends or interest of the stocks, funds, or annuities to be purchased with such money, and also the capital of such stocks, funds, or annuities, shall be paid, applied, and disposed of accordingly, unless it shall be made appear to the said court that such possession was a wrongful possession, and that some other person or persons was or were lawfully entitled to such land, ground, houses, tenements, or hereditaments, or to some estate or interest therein.
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