23. Whenever a registrar ceases to be registrar, in consequence of resignation or removal from office, and when any such registrar dies, every such registrar ceasing to hold office, and the heirs, executors or legal representatives of every such registrar dying, shall deliver to his successor, on demand, the books, registers, memorial, and papers appertaining to the office; and in case the registrar so resigning or removed from office, or the heirs, executors or other legal representatives of any deceased registrar, refuse or neglect to deliver to the successor of such registrar, any such book, register, memorial, or paper, he or they, and all of them, so refusing or neglecting, shall be liable to the parties injured, for all damages and costs sustained by such refusal or neglect.
R. S. 1964, c. 319, s. 24.