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Issue of First Certificate in other cases
Cap. 327, s. 22 · Revised Edition 2020
The Registrar shall issue a First Certificate of title–
(a) to any person in whose favour the court may make a declaration of title to land based on long possession in accordance with section 42 of the Law of Property Act;
CAP. 190.
(b) to any person entitled to a mahogany or logwood work, whether by location or purchase, who by himself solely or by himself and by his predecessor or predecessors in title have been in undisturbed possession thereof for thirty years, notwithstanding that such possession commenced before the passing of a resolution of the public meeting made the 25th July 1787, and the title or transfer thereof remained unrecorded;
(c) to any person who makes out by deed and other documents a good title to the land at common law for thirty years prior to any application for the issue of a First Certificate;
and CAP. 190.
(d) to any grantee from the Crown or the Government of free-hold land equivalent to a fee simple absolute in possession under the Law of Property Act, who elects to have, in lieu of the Crown or Government grant therefore, a First Certificate of title issued
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