Estates Tail Barring Act (Cap. 143)

ESTATES TAIL BARRING [CH.143 – 1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [Original Service 2001] STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS ESTATES TAIL BARRING CHAPTER 143 ESTATES TAIL BARRING ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title. 2. Power of tenant in tail to dispose of lands entailed. ESTATES TAIL BARRING [CH.143 – 3 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [Original Service 2001] STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS CHAPTER 143 ESTATES TAIL BARRING An Act relating to entailed estates. [Commencement 7th March, 1862] 1. This Act may be cited as the Estates Tail Barring Act. 2. Every actual tenant in tail, whether in possession, remainder, contingency or otherwise, shall have the same and the like power to dispose of for an estate in fee simple, absolute, or for any less estate, the lands entailed, as any tenant in tail in England can, under the provisions of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom third and fourth William the Fourth, chapter seventy-four, now dispose of the lands of which he is tenant in tail, as aforesaid: Provided that instead of the enrolment in chancery, as required by the said statute, every deed by which any disposition is made by a tenant in tail, except as by the said statute excepted, shall be recorded in the Registry of Records, within six months after the execution thereof. 2 of 1862 Short title. Power of tenant in tail to dispose of lands entailed. Proviso as to the registration of the deed of disposition.