Voluntary Conveyances Act (Cap. 144)

VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES [CH.144 – 1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [Original Service 2001] STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES CHAPTER 144 VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title. 2. Voluntary conveyances if bona fide not to be avoided under 27 Elizabeth, c. 4. 3. Saving transactions completed before passing of Act. 4. Interpretation. VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES [CH.144 – 3 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [Original Service 2001] STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS CHAPTER 144 VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES An Act relating to the avoidance of voluntary convey ances. [Commencement 18th April, 1905] 1. This Act may be cited as the Voluntary Con veyances Act. 2. Subject as hereinafter mentioned no voluntary conveyance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, if in fact made bona fide and without any fraudulent intent, shall hereafter be deemed fraudulent or covinous within the meaning of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom twenty-seventh Elizabeth, chapter four, by reason of any subsequent purchase for value, or be defeated under any of the provisions of the said Act by a conveyance made upon any such purchase, any rule of law notwithstanding. 3. 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. 4. In this Act “conveyance” includes every mode of disposition mentioned or referred to in the said Act of Elizabeth. 12 of 1905 Short title. Voluntary conveyances if bona fide not to be avoided under 27 Elizabeth, c. 4. Ch. 150. Saving transactions completed before passing of Act. Interpretation.