This Act regulates inheritance by will of real estate and other property. The Act concerns, among other things: the drafting and interpretation of wills; the capacity to make wills; property disposable by will; validity of wills; and devise of real estate to more than one person.
This Act amends the Trusts (Special Provisions) Act 1989 by adding a new section (2A) concerning the legal effect of the reservation by the settlor to himself or grant to any other person in a trust instrument of any limited beneficial interest in the trust property or any or all of the powers specified in the new section. Those powers concern modification, transfer, etc. of trusts, trust instruments or trust property. A trust instrument may provide that the reservation or grant of any of such powers shall not impose a fiduciary duty on the holder of such powers.
This Act regulates certain aspects of trusts, i.e. a legal relationship created, either inter-vivos or on death in which assets are placed under the control of a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary or for a specified purpose. Matters regulated include: governing law; capacity to create trusts; and jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. One Part of the Act is dedicated to special purpose trusts, i.e. trust created for a non-charitable purpose or purposes. No interest in land in Bermuda shall be held, directly or indirectly, in a purpose trust.
This Act concerns survival of actions upon the death of a person for the benefit of his or her estate. The Act also concerns actions in tort against estate of deceased person.
This Act makes provision for the public survey of land in Bermuda. It shall be lawful for the Minister, in collaboration with the Directorate of Overseas Survey of the United Kingdom or otherwise, to make a survey of Bermuda. For this purpose, any officer of the Department of Works and Engineering or any other person duly authorized by the Minister may enter upon land, carry out survey works on that land and clear any brush, scrub or trees on any land. The Act prohibits the removal of survey marks.
This Act concerns the preparation and custody a Survey Book on Parish boundaries. The Survey Book shall be prepared and certified by the Commissioners appointed under the Survey of Bermuda (Parish Boundaries) Act 1899 and taken in custody by Parish Councils. The Act prescribes that the Survey Book shall be receivable in evidence in all courts in Bermuda in proceedings regarding Parish boundaries.
This Act makes provision for the ascertainment, determination and marking of parish boundaries by Commissioners to be appointed under this Act for that purpose.The Act also prohibits the removal of mutilating of survey marks and stipulates that it shall not extend, or be deemed or construed to extend, so as to ascertain, define, alter, enlarge or increase or decrease, nor in any way to affect, any boundary or boundaries of any city, town or parish, nor the boundary or boundaries of any land or property.
This Act makes provisions for matters of inheritance and other matters of succession to title in real estate and personal property.The Act concerns, among other things, lease intestacy trust, escheat to the Crown, powers of Court, administration of estates of a deceased person and contracts to leave property by will.
This Act empowers, subject to certain restrictions, the Minister to sell any lot of land being property of the Government of Bermuda and forming part of any lands reclaimed from the foreshores of Bermuda or from the bed of the sea adjacent thereto. The sale shall be at a fair market price approved by the Cabinet and preferentially to a neighbouring landowner likely to be affected. A conveyance of land on the sale thereof under this Act may be in the form set out in the Schedule, or similar circumstances permit, or in such form as the Attorney-General advises.
This Act provides for the registration of documents by the Office of the Registrar-General and provides for the keeping and inspection of such documents. The Registrar-General shall be the authority for, among other things: recording and registering mortgages and other conditional conveyances of property under the Mortgage Registration Act 1786; recording and registering voluntary conveyances of land under the Conveyancing Act 1983; deposit of memoranda respecting the acquisition or disposal of land by bodies corporate under the Corporate Bodies' Lands Act.
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