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     C A P. XIV . 
     
     An Act to amend the Law of Real Property. 
     
     [Passed April 3, 1865.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     i) if. it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor,Council 
     
     7' ) and Assembly, as follows: 
     
    
   
   
    
     1. That from and after the passing of this Act, 
     
     all Corporeal tenements and hereditaments, shall, as 
     
     regards the conveyance of the immediate freehold 
     
     thereof, be deemed to lie in grant as well as in livery. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Il A feoffment made after the passing ofthis Act, 
     
     shall be Void at law, unless evidenced by deed; and 
     
     that a partition and an exchange of any tenements or 
     
     hereditanients, not being copyhold, and a lease re- 
     
     quired by law, to be in writing, of any tenements or 
     
     hereditaments, shall also be void at law unless made 
     
    
   
   
    
     by deed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     III. A feotfment made after the passing of this 
     
     Act, shall not have any tortions operation, and that 
     
     an exchange ora partition of any tenements or here- 
     
     ditaments made by deed, executed after the passing 
     
     ofthis Act, shall not imply any condition in law; and 
     
     that the word “ give ” or the word “ grant” in a 
     
     deed, shall not imply any covenant in law, in respect 
     
     ofany tenements; eXCept so far as the word “ give” 
     
     or the word “ grant,” may, by force of any Act of 
     
     Parliament, imply a COVenant. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IV. Under an indenture executed after the pas- 
     
     sing of this Act, an immediate estate or interest in 
     
     any tenements or hereditaments; and the benefit of 
     
     a condition or covenant, respecting any tenements 
     
     or hereditaments may be taken, although the taker 
     
     thereof be not named a party to the same indenture; 
     
     also, that a deed executed after the passing ofthis 
     
     Act, purporting to be an Indenture, shall have the 
     
     effect ofan indenture, although not actually indented. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. After the passing of this, a contingent, an 
     
     executory and a future interest, and a possibility, 
     
     coupled with an interest in any tenements or here- 
     
     ditaments of any tenure, whether the obJect ofthe 
     
     gift, or limitation of such interest, or possibility, be, 
     
     or be not ascertained, also a right ofentry, whether 
     
     immediate or future, and whether Vested or contin- 
     
     gent, into or upon, any tenements or hereditaments 
     
     within this Island, ofany tenure, may be disposed of. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     by deed; but that no such disposition shall by forcel 
     
     only ofthis Act, defeat or enlarge an estate tail. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, May  
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     VOL. IV.——No. 317 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. A contingent remainder, existing at any time 
     
     after the thirty—first day of December, one thousand 
     
     eight hundred and sixty-four, shall be, and if created 
     
     before the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to 
     
     have. been capable at taking efl'ect, notwithstanding 
     
     the determination by forfeiture, surrender or merger, 
     
     of any preceding estate of freehold, in the same 
     
     manner in all respects as if such determination had 
     
     not happened. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. \\’hen the reversion expectant on a lease 
     
     made either before or after the passing of this Act, 
     
     of any tenements or hereditaments of any tenure, 
     
     shall, after the passing ofthis Act, be surrendered, 
     
     or merge the estate which shall for the time being 
     
     confer as against the tenant under the same lease, 
     
     the next vested right to the tenements or heredita- 
     
     ments, shall to the extent, and for the purpose of 
     
     preserving such incidents to and obligations on the 
     
     same reVersion as but for the surrender or merger 
     
     thereof would have subsisted, be deemed the rever- 
     
     sion expectant on the same lease. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     CAP. XV. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act to authorize the appointment of Hog Reeves 
     
     in certain Districts in this Island, and to prevent 
     
     the going at large of Swine within the same. 
     
    

    
     _[Passed April 3, 1865.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     B it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor,Council 
     
     and Assembly, that when a majority of the in- 
     
     habitants, resident householders ofany school district 
     
     within this Island, shall make application in writing 
     
     to the Commissioner of Highways for the District 
     
     wherein they reside, stating their desire or request 
     
     that Hog Reeves may be appointed for said district, 
     
     it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioner 
     
     and he is hereby required forthwith, and annually 
     
     thereafter, to appoint two lit and proper persons to 
     
     act as Hog Reeves, for the space of one year, from 
     
     the date of their appointment, within the limits of 
     
     such school district, as at present defined and regis- 
     
     tered in the book kept by the Secretary ofthe Board 
     
     ofEducation, for the purpose ofregistering the school 
     
     districts in this Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. It shall be the duty of such persons so appoint— 
     
     ed, and they are hereby required to seize and take 
     
     up within said district, all Hogs or Swine going at 
     
     large therein, beyond the premises or enclosures of 
     
     the owner or owners thereof; and such Hog Reeves,