Legislation by Concept: Property Law
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for the Relief of Samuel Theal. Passed 6th March, 1860. | 11 George IV – Chapter 33 | 1830 | This Act describes how Samuel Theal may remedy a property issue whereby land he claims to have owned was "vested in . . . Commissioners." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Correct the Survey of the Fifth Concession Line of the Township of Yonge. Passed 6th March, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 16 | 1830 | This Act corrects an error in the numbering of lots on the Fifth Concession in the Township of Yonge. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of certain Religious Congregations therein mentioned. | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 58 | 1830 | This Act declares that whenever any Religious Congregation or Society of Christians need to secure title to land for the site of a church, meeting-house, chapel, burial-ground, dwelling-house for a priest, minister or religious teacher, or for a school-house, or other purposes, it shall be lawful for them to appoint Trustees to hold that land. The Act stipulates certain limits, including that burial grounds cannot be built within the city limits of Quebec or Montreal. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to partition the Common of the Barony of Longueuil among the Co-proprietors thereof. (26th March, 1830.) | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 29 | 1830 | An Act to partition the tract of land called the Common in the Parish of Longueuil, in the Barony of Longueuil, among the proprietors of that land. The processes by which the land will be partitioned out is described, including how a commissioner will be appointed for this purpose and their duties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish Registry Offices in the Counties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shelford and Missiskoui. (26th March, 1830.) | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 8 | 1830 | This Act establishes Registry Offices in the counties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shefford, and Missisquoi for the purpose of registering transfers or sales of immovable property in those districts. The manner in which these offices are to be established, how Registrars should be appointed, and their duties are outlined. This Act is to remain in force until 1838. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue an Act for the more effectual punishment of Persons who shall be guilty of the Trespasses therein mentioned in the City of Saint John. Passed 8th March, 1830. | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1830 | This act continues an 1819 act concerning trespasses in Saint John for an additional five years. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1830. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1830. |
| An Act relative to Confiscated Estates. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 10 | 1829 | This act makes legal and financial provisions for owners of properties which have been erroneously seized or sold. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make valid under certain restrictions the Registry of Deeds and Conveyances, made by the Registrar of the County of Northumberland, under an appointment adjudged to be invalid. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 8 | 1829 | This act forces a certain Thomas Ward to surrender all registries and memorials associated to his former position as registrar of the county of Northumberland. After having been appointed registrar, his appointment was invalidated, but he refused to surrender the deeds and conveyances in his possession. This act gives him two months to surrender said deeds and conveyances, stating that all land transfers made before the appointment of Thomas Ward was voided shall be treated as valid. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to afford greater facility in procuring testimony upon claims to Lands in this Province, by the Heirs or Devisees of the original nominees of the Crown, or their Assignees. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 4 | 1829 | This act enables all commissioners of the court of the king's bench in the province to hear matters relating to the relief of persons who may be entitled to inherit land where no patents exist, since the prior arrangements allowing one commissioner per district has not been sufficient to meet the demand of claimants. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for rendering valid conveyances of Lands and other immoveable Property held in free and common Soccage within the Province of Lower-Canada, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 9 George IV Chapter 77 | 1829 | This Act declares that all grants, bargains, sales, enfeoffments, alienations, gifts, exchanges, disposals, descents, devises, inheritance, right of dower or other conveyances of land or other immovable properties held in Free and Common Soccage in the Province are to be valid in Law. The processes by which these transfers of property can take place are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to provide for a limited time for the want of Notaries in the County of Gaspe. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 55 | 1829 | This Act continues a clause in the 1824 Act, “An Act to render valid certain Acts Agreements in Writing and Contracts of Marriage (Contrats de Marriage sous seing prive”) heretofore executed in the Inferior District of Gaspe, and to provide for the want of Notaries in the said District,” until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Inhabitants of the Seigniory of Maskinongé, in the County of Saint Maurice, to make more advantageous Regulations for the government of the Common of the said Seigniory. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 41 | 1829 | This Act outlines the process by which a Chair and Trustees are to be elected to govern the Common as a body politic and corporate by the name “the Chairman and Trustees of the Common of Maskinongé.” The Act also outlines how the land is to be governed. This Act is to remain in force until 1850. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish a certain Market Place, in the City of Montreal. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 39 | 1829 | This Act outlines how a plot of land, and the market stalls built upon it, owned by François Antoine Larocque, Jules Maurice Quesnel, and Alexis Laframboise are to be made a public market. Details for how this will be funded, and the location of the site, are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent the Fraudulent Seizure and Sale of Lands, and other real property within this Province. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 26 | 1829 | This Act defines and describes the punishment for persons found to fraudulently sell land or other property. This Act is to remain in force until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act provide for the more effectual Extinction of Secret Incumbrances on Lands, than was heretofore in use in this Province. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 20 | 1829 | This Act prevents secret mortgages on property or possessions at the time of sale by discharging existing debts, not disclosed to the purchaser prior to or at the time of the sale, on these immoveables. Payments to creditors are to be paid out of the purchase money, as described. The terms and stipulations by which this is to be done are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the exercise of the rights appertaining to proprietors and lessors against their tenants and lessees, and for other purposes therein-mentioned. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 15 | 1829 | An Act outlining how disputes between tenants and lessors (landlords) can be settled, that describes lessors’ rights. This Act is to remain in force until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to empower the Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestry of Trinity Church, in the Parish of Saint John, to dispose of Lots in the new Burial Ground in the Vicinity of the said Parish. Passed 5th April, 1828. | 9 George IV Chapter 26 | 1828 | This act allows a Saint John church to sell land previously awarded to it. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1828. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1828. |
| An Act in addition to an Act, intitiuled “an Act to empower and authorize the Justices of the County of Westmoreland, at their General Sessions of the Peace, to regulate the grazing and depasturing of the several Marshes, Lowlands, or Meadows within the said County.” Passed 5th April, 1828. | 9 George IV Chapter 22 | 1828 | This act awards additional powers to Westmorland County justices to regulate grazing on public grasslands and the roads leading to them. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1828. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1828. |
| An Act for enabling William Warren Baldwin, Esquire, to carry into effect the Will of late Laurent Quetton Saint George, and for other purposes relating to the real and personal Estates, which were of the said Laurent Quetton Saint George. Passed 25th March, 1828. | 9 George IV – Chapter 20 | 1828 | This Act grants to William Warren Baldwin, in his capacity as Executor of the will, the power to settle the estates of the late Laurent Quetton Saint George. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of Eliza Thompson, and Eliza Anne Eleanor Clute. Passed 25th March, 1828. | 9 George IV – Chapter 18 | 1828 | This Act stipualtes that the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates consider the claim of Eliza Thompson regarding land left by her husband. | Early Canadiana Online |