This Act regulates the (grant of) administration of real and personal estates of deceased persons, minors and persons under curatorship and of derelict estates. The Act also places restrictions of the disposal of such estates and provides for registration of documents and the handling of disputed claims. The Minister shall appoint Masters, Deputy Masters and Assistant Masters for purposes of grant of letters of administration.

This Act regulates the (grant of) administration of real and personal estates of deceased persons. The Act also places restrictions on the disposal of such estates and provides for registration of documents and the handling of claims. An interest in property which cannot by law be disposed of by testamentary disposition is not property for the purpose of this Act. The President shall appoint a suitable person to be the Administrator-General for the purposes of this Act. Administration of intestate estates may be granted by the court to the Administrator-General.

Amendment relating to the form of wills and legal consequences.

Amends: Wills Act, 1837. (1837-07-03)

The United Kingdom Act regulates matters of wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. A general devise of the testator's lands shall include copyhold and leasehold as well as freehold lands, in the absence of a contrary intention (sect. 26).

Amended by: Wills Amendment Act, 1852. (1852-06-17)

This Act makes provision for the registration of instruments affecting land and other matters relating to registration of titles in land and the proof of instruments. It continues the existing Deeds and Land Registry and defines functions and powers of the Registrar. The Act specifies the Instruments that not need to be registered. An instrument shall not be registered unless it is proved in the manner described and provided for in this Act. The Act also concerns the registration of wills.

For the avoidance of doubt, this Act declares that the rule against perpetuities shall apply to future easements and such easements shall be void. The Act also stipulates that a covenant not to interfere with the exercise of rights which, if directly granted, would constitute an easement declared void under this Act, shall not be enforceable against a purchaser of land affected thereby.

This Act defines full rights and powers of an actual tenant in tail, whether in possession, remainder, contingency or otherwise, to dispose of for an estate in fee simple, absolute, or for any less estate, the lands of which he or she is tenant in tail. A deed by which any disposition is made by a tenant in tail shall be recorded in the Registry of Records, within six months after the execution thereof.

This Act makes provision for selected matters in relation with property and in particular immovable property.The Act provides rules relative to licensed activities in respect of leases and other effects of legal deeds or proceedings on lease, effects of release from a rentcharge or judgements of parts of hereditaments charged therewith on unreleased parts, executions of deeds, illegal practices with deeds, duties of trustees and executors in respect of existing leases and other matters regarding land under inheritance or intestate.

The blight notice provisions in sections 149 to 171 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 enable persons holding certain interests in categories of land, specified in Schedule 13 to the Act (including land affected by certain planning and highway proposals), to require the appropriate authority to acquire their interest in the land.

El presente Decreto tiene por objeto reglamentar la Ley Nº 1.715 del Servicio Nacional de Reforma Agraria, regulando los aspectos relacionados con los procedimientos agrarios administrativos. Asimismo, establece el carácter social del derecho agrario, el que consiste, entre otras cosas, en la equidad en el derecho de acceso y tenencia de la tierra de mujeres y hombres, con preferencia a quienes no la tienen o la tienen insuficientemente (art. 3º).

These Rules amend the Registered Land Rules in the Third Schedule. The Third Schedule prescribes forms for purposes of the Registered Land Act. Form R.L. 7 is amended by deleting the attestation clause and substituting therefore a new clause. This form concerns transfer by personal representative of a deceased person to person entitled to become proprietor under a will or on an intestacy and the declaration of the transferees that they hold that interest as proprietors in common undivided shares.

Amends: Registered Land Rules (Cap. 300). (2012)

This Notice of the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development, acting under sections 18 (3), 80 and 90 of the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, determines for the purposes of those sections the amount, respectively: of the value of an estate for purposes of exemption from the requirement to appoint an executor; under which the alienation of an estate of a minor may be authorized by the Master; for purposes of payment to guardians, etc. in the case of minors.

Implements: Administration of Estates Act, 1965. (2009)