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Fixtures or
growing
crops not to
be deemed
separately
assigned.

Bill of sale to
have sche-
dule of
property
attached.

After-
acquired
property.

Exception.

Bill of sale to
be void
unless
attested and
Tegistered.

Ch. 31. No. 8.] Bills of Sale.

 

nothing in this section shall extend to any mortgage of any
estate or interest in any lands or tenements which the
mortgagee, being in possession, shall have demised to the
mortgagor as his tenant at a fair and reasonable rent.

5. No fixtures shall be deemed, under this Ordinance, to be
separately assigned or charged by reason only that they are
assigned by separate words, or that power is given to sever
them from the land or building to which they are affixed
without otherwise taking possession of or dealing with such
land or building, if by the same instrument any freehold
or leasehold interest in the land or building to which such
fixtures are affixed is also conveyed or assigned to the same
persons or person.

6. Every bill of sale shall have annexed thercto or written
thereon a schedule containing an inventory of the personal
chattels comprised in the bill of sale; and such bill of sale,
save as hereinafter mentioned, shall have cffect only in
respect of the personal chattels specifically described in the
said schedule, and shall be void, except as against the
grantor, in respect of any personal chattels not so specifically
described.

7. Save as hereinafter mentioned, a bill of sale shall be
void, except as against the grantor, in respect of any
personal chattels specifically described in the schedule
thereto of which the grantor was not the true owner at the
time of the execution of the bill of sale.

8. Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall render a bill
of sale void in respect of any fixtures separately assigned or
charged, where such fixtures are used in, attached to, or
brought upon any land, plantation, factory, workshop,
shop, house, warehouse, or other place in substitution for
any of the like fixtures specifically described in the schedule
to such bill of sale.

9. Every bill of sale and every transfer or assignment
thereof shall be duly attested and shall be registered within
seven clear days after the execution thereof, or if it is