REGISTRATION OF DEEDS ACT 1856 - SECT 15
REGISTRATION OF DEEDS ACT 1856 - SECT 15
15 . Lost instrument
That on production of
an affidavit, to be sworn before any justice of the peace, setting forth that
the original of any such enrolled instrument has been lost, or cannot be found
after due and diligent search and inquiry, or has been wholly or partially
effaced or destroyed, and that the party by whom or on whose behalf such
affidavit is tendered claims interest under such instrument, the Registrar
shall issue to the party delivering such affidavit a full copy, certified by
him to be correct, of the instrument referred to by such affidavit; and every
copy so certified shall be received in any court of justice within the said
State as conclusive evidence of the contents of the instrument so lost,
effaced or destroyed, proof having been first made to the satisfaction of such
court that such instrument is lost and cannot be found, and of the signature
of the Registrar to such certificate.