Title 26 Laws of Bermuda Item 24

BERMUDA

1923 : 16

MARRIED WOMEN'S CONVEYANCING ACT 1923

[26 April 1923]

WHEREAS under the Married Women's Conveyance Acts from time to time in force in Bermuda it was necessary to the validity of any deed executed by any married woman whereby the estate or interest of such married woman was conveyed to any grantee that such deed should be recorded or registered in the manner prescribed by any such Act for the time being in force: AND WHEREAS instances have occurred in which such recording or registration in the prescribed manner has not taken place whereby doubts in respect of certain titles to land have arisen: AND WHEREAS since the coming into operation of the Married Women's Property Act 1901, married women have been enabled in accordance with that Act to acquire, hold and dispose of by will or otherwise any real and personal property as their separate property as if they were femes soles and it is expedient to abolish the formalities heretofore required with respect to every married woman's conveyance and to any conveyance whereto any married woman is a party with her husband for the purpose of releasing her right of dower, or for any other purpose, as to recording, registering or acknowledging the same, and to validate any conveyances which may have been invalidated by failure to comply with such requirements, or with respect to the validity whereof doubts may be entertained: [words of enactment omitted]

1989 Revision 1 MARRIED WOMEN'S CONVEYANCING ACT 1923

Married women's conveyances valid; registration immaterial

1 Every deed or conveyance of any land in Bermuda heretofore executed by any married woman, either alone or in conjunction with her husband for any valuable consideration, is hereby declared to be as effectual for the assuring or conveying of such land to the grantee named in such deed or conveyance as if such woman had been a feme sole at the time of such execution, and whether such deed or conveyance was or was not recorded, registered or acknowledged in accordance with any Act for the time being in force in Bermuda, relating to deeds or conveyances executed by any married woman for valuable consideration. [this Act was brought into operation on 16 July 1923 by notice published in Gazette #

28 of 1923 and as from that day the Married Women's Conveyancing Acts, 1779, 1803, 1834, 1883, 1898 and 1920 were repealed, without effect on the validity of any deed or other instrument recorded, registered or acknowledged under any of those Acts]

[this Act was originally entitled the Married Women's Conveyance Act 1923]

[Amended by

1952 : 11]

2 1989 Revision