Imperial Acts Adopting Act 1836 (WA)

Western Australia Imperial Acts Adopting Act 1836 Western Australia Imperial Acts Adopting Act 1836 Contents Recited Imperial Acts adopted 3 Short title 3 Notes Compilation table 4 Western Australia Imperial Acts Adopting Act 1836 An Act for adopting, and applying certain Acts of Parliament, passed in the first, the first and second, the second, the second and third, and the third and fourth years of the reign of His present Majesty, respectively, in the Administration of Justice in the Colony of Western Australia, in like manner as other laws of England are applied therein. 1 Preamble Whereas certain Acts of Parliament were passed in the first, the first and second, the second, the second and third, and the third and fourth years of the reign of His present Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, respectively: 2 1. An Act for making better Provision for the disposal of the undisposed of Residues of the Effects of Testators. 3* 2. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws for facilitating the Payment of Debts out of Real Estate. 4* 3. An Act for amending the Law respecting the Conveyances Transfers of Estates and Funds vested in Trustees and Mortgagees: and for enabling Courts of Equity to give effect to their Decrees and Orders in certain Cases. 5 4. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Property belonging to Infants, Fêmes‑covert, Idiots, Lunatics, and Persons of unsound mind. 6* 5. An Act for reducing it one Act, all such Forgeries as shall henceforth be punished with Death, and for otherwise amending the Laws relative to Forgery. 7 6. An Act to abolish certain Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in the Customs and Excise Departments of His Majesty's Revenue, and to establish Declarations in lieu thereof. 8* 7. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws against Offences relating to the Coin. 9 [8. Repealed: 1 & 2 Edw. VII No. 14, s 3(2), Third Schedule.] 9. An Act for shortening the Time of Prescription in certain Cases. 10* 10. An Act for regulating the Protesting for non‑Payment of Bills of Exchange, drawn Payable at a Place not being the Place of Residence of the Drawee or Drawees of the same. 11* 11. An Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death in certain Cases of Forgery. 12 12. An Act for the Limitation of Actions and Suits relating to Real Property, and for simplifying the Remedies for trying the Right thereof. 13 13. An Act for the further Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of Justice. 14* 14. An Act to repeal so much of two Acts of the Seventh and Eighth Years and the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth, as inflicts the Punishment of Death upon Persons breaking, entering and stealing in a Dwelling‑House; and also for giving power to the Judges to add to the Punishment of Transportation for Life in certain Cases of Forgery, and in certain other Cases. 15 15. An Act to render Freehold and Copyhold Estates Assets for the Payment of Simple and Contract Debts. 16 [16. Repealed: No. 32 of 2014 s. 14(1)(a).] [17. Repealed: No. 32 of 2014 s. 14(1)(b).] And whereas it is expedient to adopt and apply the said recited Acts of Parliament in the Administration of Justice in the Colony of Western Australia: