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Certain cases in which defective registration shall not be made valid by this Act.
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2. Provided always, that where the registration of an assurance shall before the passing of this Act have been pronounced by competent authority wholly invalid, such registration shall not be rendered valid by this Act; and where the registration of any assurance shall before the passing of this Act have been pronounced by competent authority invalid as to some only of the parties thereto, or as to some only of the lands therein comprised, such registration shall not be rendered valid by this Act, so far as the same shall have been pronounced invalid; and where any person who would have been barred by any assurance, if well registered, shall before the passing of this Act have had any dealings with the lands comprised in such assurance on the faith of the registration of the same being invalid, such registration shall not be rendered valid by this Act; and this Act shall not render valid the registration of any assurance as to the lands of which any person shall at the time of the passing of this Act be in possession in respect of any estate which such assurance, if well registered, would have defeated; nor shall this Act prejudice or affect any proceedings at law or in equity at the time of the passing of this Act, in which the validity of the registration of any assurance shall be in question between the party claiming under such assurance and the party claiming adversely thereto, and the registration of such assurance, if the result of such proceedings shall be to invalidate the same, shall not be rendered valid by this Act; . . .
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