intended marriage between John M. and Jane S., John M. as settlor hereby conveys to X. and Y. All that [&c.] To hold to X. and Y. in fee simple to the use of John M. in fee simple until the marriage and after the marriage to the use of John M. during his life without impeachment of waste with remainder after his death to the use that Jane S. if she survives him may receive during the rest of her life a yearly jointure rentcharge of £ to commence from his death and to be paid by equal half-yearly payments the first thereof to be made at the end of six calendar months from his death if she is then living or if not a proportional part to be paid at her death and subject to the before-mentioned rentcharge to the use of X. and Y. for a term of 500 years without impeachment of waste on the trusts hereinafter declared and subject thereto to the use of the first and other sons of John M. and Jane S. successively according to seniority in tail male with remainder [insert here, if thought desirable, to the use of the same first and other sons successively according to seniority in tail with remainder] to the use of all the daughters of John M. and Jane S. in equal shares as tenants in common in tail with cross remainders between them in tail with remainder to the use of John M. in fee simple [Insert trusts of term of 500 years for raising portions; also, if required, power to charge jointure and portions on a future marriage; also powers of sale, exchange, and partition, and other powers and provisions, if and as desired.] In witness &c. 1. Short titles; commencement; extent; interpretation 185 Searches. 2. Official, negative, and other certificates of searches for judgments, 8. Effect of power of attorney, for value, made absolutely irrevocable 9. Effect of power of attorney, for value or not, made irrevocable for fixed time 193 CONVEYANCING ACT, 1882. (45 & 46 Vic. c. 39.) An Act for further improving the Practice of Conveyancing; and for other purposes. BE [10th August, 1882.] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Preliminary. commence interpretation. 1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Conveyancing Short titles; Act, 1882; and the Conveyancing and Law of Property ment; extent; Act, 1881 (in this Act referred to as the Conveyancing Sum., p. 75. Act of 1881) and this Act may be cited together as the Conveyancing Acts, 1881, 1882. c. 41. (2.) This Act, except where it is otherwise expressed, 44 & 45 Vic. shall commence and take effect from and immediately after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, which time is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. (3.) This Act does not extend to Scotland. (i.) Property includes real and personal property, Sec. 1. 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 92. 4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 92. Official negative and other certificates of searches for judgments, crown debts, &c. Sum., p. 75. (ii.) Purchaser includes a lessee or mortgagee, or an intending purchaser, lessee, or mortagee, or other person, who, for valuable consideration, takes or deals for property, and purchase has a meaning corresponding with that of purchaser ; 66 (iii.) The Act of the session of the third and fourth years of King William the Fourth (chapter seventy-four) "for the abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of Assurance " is referred to as the Fines and Recoveries Act; and the Act of the session of the fourth and fifth years of King William the Fourth (chapter ninety-two) "for "the abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for "the substitution of more simple modes of "Assurance in Ireland" is referred to as the Fines and Recoveries (Ireland) Act. Searches. 2.-(1.) Where any person requires, for purposes of this section, search to be made in the Central Office of the Supreme Court of Judicature for entries of judgments, deeds, or other matters or documents, whereof entries are required or allowed to be made in that office by any Act described in Part I. of the First Schedule to the Conveyancing Act of 1881, or by any other Act, he may deliver in the office a requisition in that behalf, referring to this section. (2.) Thereupon the proper officer shall diligently make the search required, and shall make and file in the office a certificate setting forth the result thereof; and office copies of that certificate shall be issued on requisition, and an office copy shall be evidence of the certificate. (3.) In favour of a purchaser, as against persons interested under or in respect of judgments, deeds, or |