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✨ Text of Legislation

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DIEU ET MON DROIT

BILLS OF SALE REGISTRATION ACT,
1856.

IN THE TWENTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN
VICTORIA.

SESSION 4, No. 8.

Title.
Preamble.

ANALYSIS.

Bills of sale to be void unless filed within 21
days.
Defeazance or condition of Bill of Sale to be
written on some paper or parchment.
Registrar to keep book containing particulars
of each Bill of Sale.
Fee for filing Bill of Sale.
Office copies or extracts to be given on pay-
ment.
Satisfaction may be entered.
Interpretation clause.
Short title.
Schedule.

AN ACT for preventing frauds upon creditors by secret Bills of Sale of personal Title.
chattels.

(Assented to 29th July, 1856.)

WHEREAS frauds are frequently committed upon creditors by Preamble,
secret bills of sale of personal chattels, for remedy whereof
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand as fol-
lows :

Every bill of sale of personal chattels made after the Bills of Sale to be
passing of this Act either absolutely or conditionally and subject or void unless filed within
not subject to any trust and whereby the grantee or holder shall 21 days.
have power either with or without notice, and either immediately after
the making of such bill of sale, or at any future time, to seize or
take possession of any property or effects comprised in or made
subject to such bill of sale, and every schedule or inventory which
shall be thereto annexed or therein referred to, or a true copy
thereof, and of every attestation of the execution thereof shall,
together with an affidavit of the time of such bill of sale being
made or given, and a description of the residence and occupation of
the person making or giving the same, or in case the same shall be
made or given by any person under or in the execution of any pro-

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1856, No 26

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

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🏛️ Bills of Sale Registration Act, 1856 (Analysis and Beginning Text)

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated29 July 1856
KeywordsLegislation, Bills of Sale, Chattels, Registration, Fraud prevention, 1856 Act

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