Legislation by Concept: Agriculture, Property Law
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act in Addition to, and Amendment of an Act intitled, An Act for preventing Trespasses. | 1 George III – Chapter 15 | 1761 | Under this Act, all goats or swine at large in the streets of Halifax are to be declared forfeited under the terms described and the value of the same is to be used for the poor of the city with less one third the value to be given to the prosecutor. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Addition to an Act intitled, An Act in Addition to an Act intitled, An Act for preventing Trespasses. | 1 George III – Chapter 10 | 1761 | This Act sets a penalty not exceeding forty pounds for trespasses by horses, swine, sheep, goats and neat cattle as described under the 1759 Act, "An Act in Addition to an Act intitled, An Act for preventing Trespasses." |
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| An Act in further Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for confirming Titles to Land and quieting Possessions.” | 1 George III – Chapter 3 | 1761 | This Act amends “An Act for confirming Titles to Land and quieting Possessions" to more sufficiently allow femes covert, persons non compos mentis or who are imprisoned, minors, and people out of the Province to sue for and recover any lands or tenements . | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for regulating the Common belonging to the Township of Lunenburg. | 34 George II – Chapter 12 | 1760 | This Act makes provision for the Grand Jury at the next Quarter Sessions to settle the regulations for the common of Lunenburg. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for encouraging the Improvement of Lands in the Peninsula of Halifax, and further quieting of Possessions. | 34 George II – Chapter 8 | 1760 | This Acts makes provision for lands on the peninsula of Halifax that have not been improved or have lain absent to be returned to the Office of Register of the Court of Chancery to be granted to someone else. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, made and passed in General-Assembly, at the Session begun and holden at Halifax, on the Second Day of October, 1758, intitled, “An Act relating to Wills, Legacies and Executors, and for the Settlement and Distribution of the Estates of Intestates.” | 34 George II – Chapter 5 | 1760 | This Act amends and clarifies certain sections of the 1758 Act, “An Act relating to Wills, Legacies and Executors, and for the Settlement and Distribution of the Estates of Intestates,” which have been slow and inconvenient. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for confirming Titles to Lands and Quieting Possessions.” | 34 George II – Chapter 4 | 1760 | This Act amends the 1758 Act, “An Act for confirming Titles to Lands and quieting Possessions,” relating to the requirement of providing a witness to attest on oath to the execution of deeds or conveyances. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act to explain an Act made and passed in the 33d Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act to enable Proprietors to divide their Lands held in common and undivided.” | 34 George II – Chapter 3 | 1760 | This Act clarifies how and where meetings as required by the 1759 Act, “An Act to enable Proprietors to divide their Lands held in common and undivided,” should be called. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, intitiled, An Act for preventing Trespasses. | 33 George II – Chapter 14 (Session 2) | 1759 | This Act outlines fines to be imposed for damages done by livestock and makes provisions for a pound to keep livestock until such fines are paid. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act to enable Proprietors to divide their Lands held in common and undivided. | 33 George II – Chapter 5 (Session 2) | 1759 | This Act outlines the processes by which common lands can be divided among its proprietors, to have the same effect as if the same had been done by deeds of partition. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for the Quieting of Possessions to the Protestant Grantees of the Lands formerly occuppied by the French Inhabitants, and for preventing vexatious Actions relating to the same. | 33 George II – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1759 | This Act dispossesses Acadians of their claims to property in Nova Scotia by preventing any actions for the recovery of their lands in court and confirms English title to the land. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for Limitation of Actions, and for avoiding Suits of Law. | 32 George II – Chapter 24 | 1758 | This Act sets limits on who may bring suits to claim property and the period that may pass between the transfer of property and a suit brought for lands, tenements, or other property. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for preventing Frauds and Perjuries. | 32 George II – Chapter 18 | 1758 | This Act implements several measures to prevent frauds and perjuries, such as by requiring contracts be made on sales at a price of ten or more pounds, and several measures relating to property law, including allowable terms of leases and sales or inheritance of property. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for making Lands and Tenements liable to the Payment of Debts. | 32 George II – Chapter 15 | 1758 | This Act sets regulations on how creditors can collect payments of debts and procedures to take place if the debtor cannot repay their creditor. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for preventing Trespasses. | 32 George II – Chapter 14 | 1758 | This Act sets standards for fences and sets procedures for how and in what cases damages done by horses or livestock should be compensated. Swine are also not to be permitted to be at large in the streets of Halifax. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act relating to Wills, Legacies, and Executors, and for the Settlement and Distribution of the Estates of Intestates. | 32 George II – Chapter 11 | 1758 | This Act regulates how wills are to be enacted and puts restrictions on how much property can be bequeathed without the oath of witnesses. The Act also outlines what is to be done in the event that inheritors or witnesses are deceased. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act directing the Proceedings against forcible Entry or Detainer. | 32 George II – Chapter 3 | 1758 | Under this Act, any person found to have forcefully entered or detained any houses, lands, tenements, or other possessions is liable to cover any treble damages and costs of suit suffered by the party grieved, as outlined. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for confirming Titles to Lands, and quieting Possessions. | 32 George II – Chapter 2 | 1758 | This Act confirms title to land claimed by virtue of any last will or testament and the process by which disputes over property will be settled, including how debtors can recover their property. Under this Act, all Catholics are only to have title to lands granted by the Crown and all other deeds or wills are made null and void. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |