Fraudulent Conveyances Act (Cap. 117)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 1. Short title. 2. Void feoffment, gift, etc. 3. Bona fide transaction. CHAPTER 117 FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES ACT An Act against fraudulent deeds, alienations and gifts. [21st January, 1846.] 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fraudulent Conveyances Act. 2. Void feoffment, gift, etc. Every feoffment, gift, grant, alienation, assignment and conveyance of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels, or of any lease, rent, profit, right, interest or charge of, in, to or out of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels, by writing or otherwise, and every bond, suit, judgement and execution, at any time had or made, or at any time hereafter to be had or made to or for the end, purpose, or intent, to delay, hinder or defraud creditors and others of their just and lawful actions, suits, debts, accounts, damages, penalties or forfeitures, shall be deemed and taken to be utterly void and of no effect as against that person or persons, his or their heirs successors, executors, administrators and assigns, and every of them, whose action, suit, debt, account, damages, penalties, or forfeitures, by any such guileful, covinous or fraudulent device or practice, is, are, shall, may or might be in anywise disturbed, hindered, delayed or defrauded, any pretence or feigned consideration or other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding. 3. Bona fide transaction Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to any estate, right or interest in or to any lands, tenements, hereditaments, leases, rents, profits, goods or chattels, now or hereafter to be lawfully had, made, conveyed, assigned, or assured upon good condition and bona fide to any person or persons, or bodies politic or corporate, not having at the time of such conveyance, assignment, or assurance to them made, any manner of notice or knowledge of such covin, fraud or collusion, as aforesaid.