Land Grants Act 1855 (SA)

No* 22.

An Act to declnre the Iegul operation of Land Grants made to

deceased Persons.

[Assented to, June 18, 1856.1

REAS Grants have, it1 some cases, been executed in South Preamble.

Australia to persons who have contracted with the proper authorities for the purchase of Crown Lands, and who have been afterwards found to have died before the execution of such Grants,

and other similar cases may occur, and it is expedient to give effect

to such Grants in favor of the persons entitled to the benefit of such contracts-Be it therefore Enacted by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. In every case in which the purchaser of any land shall have Grant how to take

died, or shall hereafter die, in the interval between entering iuto a effect.

contract with the proper authorities for the purchase of Crown Land

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in South Australia and the execution of a Grant or assurance of

such land to such purchaser, the execution of such Grant or other

assurance shall have the effect of vesting the land thereby expressed

to be granted or conveyed in the heir at law, devisee, or other

person entitled, in like manner as if the person named as the grantee

in such Grant or assurance had been living at the time of the

execution thereof, and had afterwards died; and such Grant or

other assurance shall, for all purposes, be deemed and taken to have

been executed on the day on which the grantee shall have been or

may be, entitled, under the contract entered into by him for the

purchase of the land expressed to be granted.

Adelaide: Printed by authority, by W. C. COX, Government Printer, Victoria-square.