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Section 20, The Escheat Ordinance
Status not yet checkedThe Escheat Ordinance, Sierra Leone
A copy of the certificate vesting the land in the Crown Notificationof certificate
shall be affixed to the door of the Office of the Master of the vesting lands.
Supreme Court and a notice of the issue of the certificate shall,
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Land
escheated to
form part of
general
revenue.
Governor
may appoint
assessors.
if possible, be affixed to some portion of the land and shall be
published in the next issue of the Gazette. Such notice, which
shall be in the form set forth in Schedule F, or as near thereto
as circumstances permit, and shall be signed by the Attorney
General, shall state that any person who appeared at the
hearing may within three months, and any person who makes
affidavit to the Court that he was unaware of the hearing of
the case may, within six months from the date of the certificate
of the Court, make application for leave to appeal to the West
African Court of Appeal and that if no such application has
been filed within the aforementioned times the land shall vest
indefeasibly in the Crown.
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