...consideration, unless a memorial thereof should be registered in the manner prescribed by the act, before a memorial of the deed or conveyance under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee claimed, should be registered. The effect of the statute was to vest the legal estate in the subsequent...

...conveyance, contract, or instrument of writing shall be recorded as aforesaid before the recording of the deed or conveyance under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim. Section 2. This act shall take effect the first day of Effective date. January, one thousand nine hundred...

...consideration, unless such deed or conveyance be recorded, as aforesaid, before the proving and recording of the deed or conveyance under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim.' Under the letter of this statute, the Jonathan Phillips title is not good against either Henry Swank...

...enacted that all deeds and wills concerning estates shall be adjudged fraudulent and void against a subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration, unless a memorial thereof be registered in the manner thereby prescribed, before the registering of the memorial of the deed under which such...

...made or executed . . . shall be adjudged fraudulent and void . . . unless such memorial thereof shall be registered . . . before the registering of the memorial of the deed or conveyance." The words of that Act, then, were " deed and conveyance," and subsequently " deed or conveyance," and...

...valuable consideration, unless such memorial thereof shall be registered as by this Act is directed before the registering of the memorial of the deed...subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim." Now here we have a subsequent mortgagee whose mortgage is duly registered. We have a prior registered mortgage...

...valuable consideration, " unless such memorial thereof be registered," as by that act is directed, " before the registering of the memorial of the deed...under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee should claim " ; and in section 6. it was provided that every deed, conveyance, and will or probate,...

...such deed, conveyance or instrument of writing shall be recorded as aforesaid before the recording of the deed or conveyance under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim." THE PRESIDENT: This Act will go to the incoming •Committee on Law Reform, without any special action...

...called upon for the first time, to put a construction 10.-, M.— 30 on the words of the statute, * * * it is impossible, that plainer words could be used, and I think, that, sitting in a court of law, we are bound to give effect to them, and that we cannot say, that...

...such a Deed shall be Registered, as by this present Proclamation is directed, before the Registering of the Deed or Conveyance under which such subsequent Purchaser or Mortgagee shall claim. Thus began the system which would develop later into the Torrens Land Registration schemes, brought...