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§§ 8-11. arrive in England if posted immediately after the execu tion thereof; and shall truly set forth the consideration for which it was given; otherwise such bill of sale shall be void in respect of the personal chattels comprised

Form of bill

of sale.

Attestation.

Local registration of contents of bill of sale.

c. 71, s. 60.

therein.

9. A bill of sale made or given by way of security for the payment of money by the grantor thereof shall be void unless made in accordance with the form in the schedule to this Act annexed.

10. The execution of every bill of sale by the grantor shall be attested by one or more credible witness or witnesses, not being a party or parties thereto. So much of section ten of the principal Act as requires that the execu tion of every bill of sale shall be attested by a solicitor of the Supreme Court, and that the attestation shall state that before the execution of the bill of sale the effect thereof has been explained to the grantor by the attesting witness, is hereby repealed.

11. Where the affidavit (which under section ten of the principal Act is required to accompany a bill of sale when presented for registration) describes the residence of the person making or giving the same or of the person against whom the process is issued to be in some place outside the 32 & 33 Vict. London bankruptcy district as defined by the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, or where the bill of sale describes the chattels enumerated therein as being in some place outside the said London bankruptcy district, the registrar under the principal Act shall forthwith and within three clear days after registration in the principal registry, and in accordance with the prescribed directions, transmit an abstract in the prescribed form of the contents of such bill of sale to the County Court registrar in whose district such places are situate, and if such places are in the districts of different registrars to each such registrar.

Every abstract so transmitted shall be filed, kept, and §§ 11-16. indexed by the registrar of the County Court in the prescribed manner, and any person may search, inspect, make extracts from, and obtain copies of the abstracts so registered in the like manner and upon the like terms as to payment or otherwise as near as may be as in the case of bills of sale registered by the registrar under the principal Act.

12. Every bill of sale made or given in consideration of Bill of sale any sum under thirty pounds shall be void.

13. All personal chattels seized or of which possession is taken after the commencement of this Act, under or by virtue of any bill of sale (whether registered before or after the commencement of this Act), shall remain on the premises where they were so seized or so taken possession of, and shall not be removed or sold until after the expiration of five clear days from the day they were so seized or so taken possession of.

under 301. to be void.

Chattels not

to be removed

or sold.

14. A bill of sale to which this Act applies shall be no Bills of sale protection in respect of personal chattels included in such not to protect bill of sale which but for such bill of sale would have been

liable to distress under a warrant for the recovery of taxes and poor and other parochial rates.

15. The eighth and the twentieth sections of the principal Act, and also all other enactments contained in the principal Act which are inconsistent with this Act are repealed, but this repeal shall not affect the validity of anything done or suffered under the principal Act before the commencement of this Act.

chattels against poor and parochial rates.

Repeal of part
Sale Act,

of Bills of

1878.

registered

16. So much of the sixteenth section of the principal Inspection of Act as enacts that any person shall be entitled at all rea- bills of sale. sonable times to search the register and every registered bill of sale upon payment of one shilling for every copy of a bill of sale inspected is hereby repealed, and from and

§ 16-18. after the commencement of this Act any person shall be entitled at all reasonable times to search the register, on payment of a fee of one shilling, or such other fee as may be prescribed, and subject to such regulations as may be prescribed, and shall be entitled at all reasonable times to inspect, examine, and make extracts from any and every registered bill of sale without being required to make a written application, or to specify any particulars in reference thereto, upon payment of one shilling for each bill of sale inspected, and such payment shall be made by a Judicature stamp: Provided that the said extracts shall be limited to the dates of execution, registration, renewal of registration, and satisfaction, to the names, addresses, and occupations of the parties, to the amount of the consideration, and to any further prescribed particulars.

Debentures to

to apply.

17. Nothing in this Act shall apply to any debentures which Act not issued by any mortgage, loan, or other incorporated company, and secured upon the capital stock or goods, chattels, and effects of such company.

Extent of Act.

18. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

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between A.B. of the other part,

now

witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of £
paid to A.B. by C.D., the receipt of which the said A.B.
hereby acknowledges [or whatever else the consideration may be],
he the said A.B. doth hereby assign unto C.D. his executors,
administrators, and assigns, all and singular the several
chattels and things specifically described in the schedule
hereto annexed by way of security for the payment of the
sum of £ and interest thereon at the rate of
per cent.
per annum [or whatever else may be the rate]. And the said

A.B. doth further agree and declare that he will duly pay to
the said C.D. the principal sum aforesaid, together with the
interest then due, by equal
payments of £ on the
day of
[or whatever else may be the stipulated times or
time of payment]. And the said A.B. doth also agree with
the said C.D. that he will [here insert terms as to insurance,
payment of rent, or otherwise, which the parties may agree to
for the maintenance or defeasance of the security]. Provided
always, that the chattels hereby assigned shall not be liable
to seizure or to be taken possession of by the said C.D. for
any cause other than those specified in section seven of the
Bills of Sale Act (1878) Amendment Act, 1882.

In witness, &c.

Signed and sealed by the said A.B.

in the presence of me, E.F.
[add witness' name, address, and
description].

Sched.

W.P.

BOARD OF TRADE ORDERS.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1883.

Board of Trade, January 1, 1884.

The Board of Trade, with the concurrence of the Treasury, have ordered the appointment of one official receiver for the Bankruptcy District of the High Court, and have also fixed the number of official receivers for the Bankruptcy Districts within the jurisdiction of the county courts as in the list annexed hereto.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1883.

Whereas, by sect. 160 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, it is enacted that where a bankruptcy or liquidation by arrangement under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, has been or is hereafter closed, any property of the bankrupt or liquidating debtor which vested in the trustee, and has not been realized or distributed, shall vest in such person as may be appointed by the Board of Trade for that purpose, and he shall thereupon proceed to get in, realize, and distribute the property in like manner and with and subject to the like powers and obligations as far as applicable as if the bankruptcy or liquidation were continuing, and he were acting as trustee thereunder. Now, therefore, it is ordered that the official receiver attached to the Court having jurisdiction over any such bankruptcy or liquidation as is in the said section mentioned, shall be and hereby is appointed as the person in whom the property of the bankrupt or liquidating debtor shall vest, and who shall exercise and perform the powers and obligations specified in the said section.

Dated the 1st day of January, 1884.

(Signed) J. CHAMBERLAIN, President of the Board of Trade.

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