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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt:...by a son and heir, personating his § 4 (iii). father of the same name, is a forgery, and void against the Registration devisees under an unregistered will (/). mortgage It may be proper in this place to make a few observations Distinction tending more particularly to distinguish between the operation English and Registry Acts of England and Ireland; and with that Irish Registry view it may be first remarked, that the two sets of Aots agree in the following respects, viz., that registry itself is not notice (t); that deeds take effect inter partes and their representatives, although not registered, for the Registry Acts do not make registration imperative, but leave it at the option of the parties; and that in Middlesex and Ireland, but now not in Yorkshire, notice of a prior unregistered deed will prevent the priority of a subsequent registered deed (k). But as between two registered deeds for good consideration without notice, this difference exists, viz., that in Middlesex, as formerly also in Yorkshire, a registered deed conveying the legal estate will have preference over a prior registered equitable conveyance, if such subsequent conveyance was obtained without notice of the prior equitable assurance (/), and a prior legal mortgagee, duly registered, advancing a further sum without actual notice of a puisne incumbrance (m), or an equitable mortgagee getting in the legal estate without notice («) may tack their respective securities, although the mesne incumbrance be duly registered. It is the folly of a purchaser or mortgagee to advance his money without having previously ascertained whether the legal estate be outstanding or not; and if the legal estate is shown to be outstanding, it is his business to get it in, or give proper notice of his...