T-7 - Act respecting lands of religious congregations

Section 2 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

2. To give effect to section 1, the rector or officiating clergyman, with the churchwardens of such parish, mission, congregation or society of Christians, or the trustees to whom the care and administration of such lands were confided, should have caused the titles thereto, and a description and measurement thereof made by a land surveyor, to be registered before 19 March 1841, in the office of the prothonotary of the Court of Queen’s Bench, or before 23 February 1877, in the office of the prothonotary of the Superior Court for the district in which such lands were situated, or, in default of such title, caused to be registered, in the manner aforesaid, authentic certificates of the peaceable possession of such lands during 10 years, such certificates being attested by seven persons, being owners or holders of real property in the place or the neighborhood thereof, with a description and measurement of such lands, made as aforesaid by a land surveyor.

R. S. 1964, c. 306, s. 2.