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Conveyances (Voluntary) Act.

Country/Territory
Jamaica
Document type
Legislation
Date
1916 (1973)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Land tenure Transfer Inheritance Ownership
Geographical area
Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States
Abstract

This Act concerns the validation of bona fide voluntary conveyance of lands, tenements or hereditaments. “Conveyance” includes every mode of disposition mentioned or referred to in specified enactments. This Act does not apply in any case in which the author of a voluntary conveyance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments has subsequently, but before the passing of this Act disposed of or dealt with the same lands, tenements, or hereditaments to or in favour of a purchaser for value.

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