Schedule., The Imperial Statutes Short title

CHAPTER 18. IMPERIAL STATUTES (LAW OF PROPERTY) ADOPTION. An Ordinance to adopt and apply certain Statutes of the Imperial 44 of 1932. Parliament relating to real and personal property, and to 14 of 1949· make other provisions for amending the law of real and personal property. [1ST JANUARY, 1933.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Imperial Statutes Short title. (Law of Property) Adoption Ordinance. 2. Subject to the provisions of section 7 of the Interpretation Adopt~on of Ordinance, and of sections 3 to 9 of this Ordinance, the Statutes ~fJ,~~:;. of the Imperial Parliament set forth in the first column of the Cap. 1. Schedule are hereby expressly declared to apply to this Colony to the extent specified in the second column of the Schedule. 3. So much of English Law as prohibits or restricts the Charities. alienation or devise of land for charitable purposes, or the bequest of personalty to be laid out in the purchase of land for charitable purposes, shall have no force or effect in the Colony. Married women. Dower and curtesy. Abolition of husband's liability for wife's torts and antenuptial contracts, debts and obligations. 14 of 1949. Omission of references to copyhold land, customary land, Land Commissioners, etc. Conveyance without words of limitation passes fee. Conveyances to corporations sole. Application of section. Statutes not to have retrospective effect except in certain cases. Cap. 18] Imperial Statutes (Law of Property) Adoption 4. So much of English Law as specially restricts the acquisition holding or disposition of real or personal property by a married woman as such, whether on her own behalf or as executrix, administratrix or trustee, or limits her capacity to sue or be sued in her own name, shall have no force or effect in the Colony. 5. So much of English Law as confers estates in dower or by the curtesy shall have no force or effect in the Colony. 6. The husband of a married woman shall not, by reason only of his being her husband, be liable- (a) in respect of any tort committed by her whether before or after the marriage or in respect of any contract entered into, or debt or obligation incurred by her before the marriage; or (b) to be sued, or made a party to any legal proceeding brought, in respect of any such tort, contract, or obligation: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any legal proceeding in respect of any tort if proceedings had been instituted in respect thereof before the date on which this section comes into operation. 7. Such provisions of the Statutes hereby adopted as refer to "copyhold land," "customary land," "Land Commissioners," " mines " or " minerals " shall be read and construed as though such references had been omitted therefrom. 8. (I) A conveyance of freehold land to any person without words of limitation, or any equivalent expression, shall pass to the grantee the fee simple or other the whole interest which the grantor has power to convey in such land, unless a contrary intention appears in the conveyance. (2) A conveyance of freehold land to a corporation sole by his corporate designation, without the word "successors," shall pass to the corporation the fee simple or other the whole interest which the grantor had power to convey in such land, unless a contrary intention appears in the conveyance. (3) The foregoing provisions of this section apply only to conveyances and deeds executed after the commencement of this Ordinance. 9. The Statutes hereby adopted shall not apply to anything done or suffered before the commencement of this Ordinance, except in such cases as the said Statutes were expressly applied Imperial Statutes (Law of Property) Adoption [Cap. 18 141 to anything done ?r suffered !n Englan~ before the dates on which they respectively came mto operatiOn.