This Act provides for the establishment of the office of Public Trustee as a corporation and appointment of a Public Trustee by the Governor-General and defines the powers and functions of the Public Trustee.
This Act places restrictions on certain dispositions regarding any freehold or leasehold land. It requires partition, or exchange, or assignment of freehold or leasehold land or lease of freehold or leasehold land to be done by deed and provides for transfer of contingent or executory interest in land or other property.
This Act provides that real estate over which a person executes by will a general power of appointment, as if it were real estate vested in him, without a right in any other person to take by survivorship, shall on his death, notwithstanding any testamentary disposition, devolve to and become vested in his personal representative(s), as if it were a chattel real vesting in them or him.
This Act regulates matters relative to construction and execution of wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. It defines the right to dispose of property by will and defines procedures of and restrictions on inheritance.
This Act provides rules relative to various matters of real property including leases, administration of estates of deceased persons and mortgages.
This Act amends the Wills Act, 1837 with regard to the form of a will, the extension of the application of provisions of the principal to existing wills and the interpretation of “will”.
Amends: Wills Act, 1837 (CAP. 26). (1837-07-03)
This United Kingdom Act, applicable to Tuvalu, regulates matters relative to wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. It defines the right to dispose of property by will and defines procedures of and restrictions on inheritance with special regard to customary freeholds and copyholds.
Amended by: Wills Amendment Act 1852 (Cap. 24). (1852-06-17)
This Act amends the Wills Act, 1837 with regard to the form of a will, the extension of the application of provisions of the principal to existing wills and the interpretation of “will”.
Amends: Wills Act, 1837 (C. 26). (1837-07-03)
This United Kingdom Act, applicable to Tonga, regulates matters relative to wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. It defines the right to dispose of property by will and defines procedures of and restrictions on inheritance with special regard to customary freeholds and copyholds.
Amended by: Wills Amendment Act 1852. (1852-06-17)
This Act amends the Tokelau Act 1948 with respect to matters of legitimacy of the right of inheritance.
This Act concerns the administration of real estate of deceased persons by personal representative of the deceased person or executor by will. The Act also makes provision for the disposal of land subject to this Act and other administration of assets.
This Act contains rules relative to real property and especially the lease and disposal of land.It prescribes rules relative to the manner of giving effect to equitable interests and powers, Creation and disposition of equitable interests, vesting orders and dispositions of legal estates operating as conveyances by an estate owner, leasehold, rights on real property in case of infancy, lunacy o