This Act makes it easier for a married female property owner to transfer her land title to another owner; sets out the specifics of such transfer; and repeals the previous Act dealing with transfer of female-owned property.
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.
This Act allows female property owners to sell their real estate by meeting with a Quarter Sessions of the Peace rather than requiring that they meet with the Court of King's Bench or a judge.
This act makes it easier for women to consent to be barred from their dower, allowing for a certificate to be issued stating that she has consented to such barring, which would thereby allow for the sale of dower by her husband.
This act makes it lawful for any person entitled to a dowery to release a woman's right and title to dower in the land in question in order to bar any person from executing the same dower over such land.
This act amends a 1787 act so that any widow who accepts a deed worth over 200 pounds upon the death of her husband shall not be allowed to reclaim her dowery.
This act amends a 1787 act stipulates how a widow living out of province may more eaily claim a New Brunswick based dower following her husband's death.
This act makes the city of Saint John appoitned tax collectors from the last act subject to the same rules and regulations as collectors in other counties.
Under this Act, wives are to be examined by Justices of the Peace before property they would have claim to by dower can be sold to ensure that they signed the deeds of sale without compulsion from their husbands.
This Act amends the 1767 Act, "An Act for Partition of Lands in Coparcenary, Jointenancy, and Tenancy in Common, and thereby for the more effectual collecting His Majesty’s Quit Rents in the Colony of Nova Scotia," relating to the method of executing Writs of Partition.
This Act gives directions for how women should be given their dowers upon their husbands' deaths, and includes forms for the Writ of Dower and Writ of Seizin to be used. Limits on how women can use properties gained as part of the dower are also given.