Land Transfer (Ireland) Act, 1848

After 1st January 1849, crown bonds and recognizances then filed as of record, and more than 20 years old, shall not affect purchasers or mortgagees, unless re-docketed.

13. [Recital of 7 & 8 Vict c. 90. s. 11.] From and after the first day of January next no bond or recognizance to the crown filed as of record in Ireland which shall be more than twenty years old from the date thereof shall affect any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as to purchasers or mortgagees or creditors, unless and until a memorandum or minute, duly authenticated, containing the name and usual or last known place of abode, and the title, trade, or profession, of the person whose estate is intended to be affected, the sum for which such bonds or recognizance was passed or eutered into, and the date of the same, shall be left with the registrar of judgments, who shall forthwith enter the same particulars in a book to be entitled “Redocketed Crown Bonds and Recognizances,” to be kept in alphabetical order, by the name of the person whose estate is intended to be affected by such bonds or recognizances; and for every such entry the said registrar shall be entitled to the same fee as is authorized by the said Act for each entry in the book intituled “The Index of Debtors and Accountants to the Crown”; and all persons shall be at liberty to search the said book, as well as the books directed by the said Act to be kept by the said registrar, on payment of the fee by the said Act authorized.