P-38 - Settlers Protection Act

Section 1 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

1. No public lands granted to a bona fide settler by instruments in the form of location tickets, occupation licenses or sale or other titles of a similar nature or to the same effect, in virtue of the law, and according to the orders-in-council and regulations passed in virtue thereof, as well as the improvements made, the buildings erected and the expenses incurred by such settlers, shall, so long as letters patent are not issued therefor, be pledged or hypothecated by judgment or otherwise, or be liable to seizure or execution for any debt whatsoever, except for the price of such lands, the payment of municipal or school taxes, costs of road work and assessments for the building of churches, parsonages or cemeteries, the whole notwithstanding articles 1980 and 1981 of the Civil Code, and articles 569 and 572 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

R. S. 1964, c. 106, s. 1; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 1.