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   Distress for Rent (No. 2) Act (Cap. 165).

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   This Act makes provision with respect to distress for rent not paid by a tenant to a landlord and it gives powers to a landlord to distrain and sell goods and chattels fraudulently carried off the premises. The landlord may seize and secure cattle, stock or crops or other product whatsoever, which shall be growing on any part of the demised estates, if the tenant doesn't pay the rent. The Act also provides, among other things, for recovery of rents from under-tenants and prohibits a tenant or lessee to fraudulently remove his or her goods or chattels.

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   Distress for Rent Act (Cap. 164).

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   This Act makes provision with respect to distress for rent not paid by a tenant to a landlord. It gives powers to a landlord claiming arrears of rent to seize and secure goods of the tenant including crops.

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   Landlord and Tenant Act (Cap. 161).

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   This Act makes provision with respect to goods and chattels that belong to a tenant that has arrears of rent to a landlord and which shall secure compensation for non-payment of such rent and relative execution. Distress or the bringing of actions may also be applied in the case of lease for life.

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   Limitation Act (Cap. 83).

   An Act to consolidate with amendments certain written laws relating to the limitation of actions and for connected purposes.

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   Land Conflicts

   Land & Gender

   land dispute resolution

   land inheritance rights

   leases

   land ownership

   This Act establishes periods of limitation and other limitations for bringing actions of the various classes mentioned in the Act. Section 42 extends the applicability of the Act also to arbitration. Actions include various actions in respect of land: actions to recover land by the Crown or any person and rent; action to recover money secured by a mortgage or charge or to recover proceeds of the sale of land; and actions in respect of trust property or the personal estate of deceased persons and actions for an account.

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   Validation of Gratuitous Conveyances Act (Cap. 145).

   An Act to remove the presumption of a resulting trust in certain voluntary conveyances.

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   land ownership

   This Act stipulates that in a voluntary conveyance or in a conveyance where the consideration is nominal, a resulting trust for the grantor shall not be implied merely by reason of the absence of valuable consideration or of a substantial consideration or of any words expressly rebutting a resulting trust or by reason that the land is not expressed to be conveyed for the use or benefit of the grantee.

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   Voluntary Conveyances Act (Cap. 144).

   An Act relating to the avoidance of voluntary conveyances.

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   land ownership

   This Act defines the legality of voluntary conveyance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments which are in fact made bona fide and without any fraudulent intent for purposes of a specified piece of United Kingdom legislation. This Act does not apply in any case in which the author of a voluntary conveyance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments has subsequently, but before the passing of this Act, disposed of or dealt with the same lands, tenements or hereditaments to or in favour of a purchaser for value.

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   Real Property Act (Cap. 169).

   An Act to amend the law of real property.

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   This Act makes provision in relation with selected matters concerning real property such as the status of all corporeal tenements and hereditaments, the validity of certain acts such as feoffments, partitions, exchanges, leases and of interests in tenements and hereditaments and the status of a reversion expected on a lease on tenements to be surrendered or merged.

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   Small Tenements Act (Cap. 160).

   An Act relating to the powers of Magistrates in connection with small tenements.

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   This Act makes provision for duties and proceedings in relation with the ending of a tenancy of a small tenement, i.e. any premises held by the tenant at will or for any term not exceeding one year and at a maximum specified rent.The Act provides for recovery of possessions and legal actions that a landlord may or may not undertake for this purpose.

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   Validation of Gratuitous Conveyances Act (Cap. 157).

   An Act to validate and confirm conveyances by companies of real and personal property which have been made without any or any adequate consideration passing to the companies making such conveyances.

   Legislation

   Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

   leases

   land ownership

   This Act creates a general validation of acts of conveyances, for which no or no adequate compensation has been given to the conveyor, of real and personal property including leases, mortgages and any other instrument purporting to effect the transfer of any estate or interest in real or personal property from a company to any person. The Act consequentially extinguishes claims adverse to such conveyances. The provisions of this Act shall not affect bona fide purchase or invalidation of fraudulent conveyances by court.

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    Deserted Tenements Act.

    An Act to alter an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Second, for the more effectual securing the payment of rents, and preventing frauds by tenants.

    Legislation

    Bahamas, Americas, Caribbean

    farmland

    leases

    land

    The Act makes provisions in respect of powers and remedies given to lessors and landlords in case of any tenant deserting the demised premises, and leaving the same uncultivated or unoccupied, so as no sufficient distress can be had to countervail the arrears of rent. These powers and remedies are applicable in the case of tenants holding any lands, tenements, or hereditaments at a rack rent.