New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or
requires:
"The purchaser" means the person who last acquired the land otherwise than by
descent or than by any escheat or partition, by the effect of which the land
has become part of or descendible in the same manner as other land acquired by
descent.
"Descent" means the title to inherit land by reason of consanguinity as well
where the heir is an ancestor or collateral relation as where the heir is a
child or other issue.
"Descendants" of any ancestor extends to all persons who must trace their
descent through such ancestor.
"The person last entitled to land" extends to the last person who had a right
thereto, whether that person did or did not obtain the possession or the
receipt of the rents and profits thereof.
"Assurance" means any deed or instrument (other than a will) by which any land
is conveyed or transferred at law or in equity.