for granting life-annuities, (except annuities by will, marriage fettlement, or for the advancement of a child, and annuities fecured on fee-fimple or fee-tail lands of equal value, or on stocks of greater value actually transferred; or voluntary annuities, or annuities granted by corporations, by parliament, or laftly, annuities under Iol. per annum) which memorial is to contain the date, names of the parties, and witnesses.

The acts require only the dates, perfons names, additions, parcels, witnesses names, and their additions and places of abode, to be contained in the memorial; but it is ufual to make a short recital of the tranfaction.

Where there are more deeds than one to perfect a conveyance or fecurity, the lands, &c. need not be set forth in each memorial; but being described in one of them, may be referred to by the rest.

These memorials are to be on vellum or parchment, and to be figned and fealed in the common form by one of the grantors or grantees, his or their executors, adminiftrators, guardians or trustees, and attefted by two witneffes; and one of the witneffes to the deed must be a witness to the memorial, who is to make oath to the due execution of both before the register, and also produce the deed, grant or will at the fame time.

The reasons upon which these acts proceed, (though their policy has been doubted, fee 2 Black. Com. 343) are to guard against “ fraudulent charges and incumbrances, fince the difufe of the old Saxon cuftom of transacting all conveyances at the county court, and entering a memorial thereof in the chartulary or legerbook of fome adj cent monaftery.” Ib. and Co. Lit. 237.

Of a leafe for a year.

A memorial to be registered, pursuant to an act of parliament made in the feventh year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intitled, an act for the public regiftering of deeds, conveyances, wills and other incumbrances which fhall be made, or that may affect any honours, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, within the county of Middlefex, after the nine and twentieth day of September, one thousand feven hundred and nine.

AN indenture bearing date, &c. and in the

year of our Lord, &c. made between, &c. of the one part, and, &c. of the other part, purporting to be a leafe for a year, to veft the poffeffion of and concerning All that meffuage or tenement, &c. and all buildings, yards, gardens, easements, commodities and appurtenances whatsoever, to the faid premises be

longing or in any wife appertaining or accepted, reputed or known, as part, parcel or member thereof, and the reverfion and reverfions, remainder and remainders, rents, iffues and profits of all and fingular the faid premises; which faid indenture of leafe was duly executed, and is witneffed by T. A. of &c. Efquire, and J. W. of &c. Gent. And the fame is hereby required to be registered pursuant to the faid act, by me the faid 7. A. the grantor; As witnefs my hand and feal the

AN

1796.

Of a release.

Memorial to be registered (as before.)

day of

N indenture dated, &c. made, &c. of the one part, and, &c. of the other part, purporting to be a release of all and fingular the premifes mentioned in a certain leafe for a year bearing date the day next before the day of the date of the faid release, and made between, &c. A memorial of which is regiftered at the fame time herewith: which indenture of release is witneffed by

and

and is hereby required to be registered by me the faid grantor in the

the

faid indenture of leafe; As witness my hand

and seal, &c.

Memorial of a conveyance in fee by leafe and releafe.

A Memorial to be registered, &c. of

Ndentures of lease and release, bearing date leafe

respectively, the

and

days of

25

leafe between A. B. of the release made between, &c. (defcribe the parties as in the deed), whereby the faid A. B. in consideration of the fum of of lawful money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by the faid did grant, bargain, fell, and release unto the faid his heirs, &c. All that, &c. (infert a description of the parcels, or make a reference to fome deed wherein the same premises are described) to hold to the said — -his heirs and affigns for ever, fubject, &c. (If the premifes are fubject to any incumbrance or outgoings, infert them here), which faid indenture of leafe is witneffed by of

of

and which faid

and
indenture of releafe is witneffed by

and

of

and is hereby re

quired to be registered by the faid witnefs his hand and feal.

as

Note. When the conveyance is accompanied by a bargain and fale, the memorial of the bargain and fale is ufually engroffed upon the fame fkin with the leafe and release, and where there is an affignment of a term, it follows the bargain and fale, one defcription of the premises being fufficient to regifter all the four deeds, as in the following precedent.

Memorial of an affignment of a term to attend the inheritance of the fame premises, to follow the leafe and release.

A Memorial to be registered, &c. of

AN indenture bearing date the day

of

in the year of our Lord 17 made between, &c. (infert all the

parties to the deeds before mentioned) purporting to be an affignment of a term to attend the inheritance of and concerning the fame premifes contained in the memorial of an indenture of leafe for one year, made between, &c. (infert the parties to the leafe for a year), a memorial whereof is registered at the fame time herewith, which faid indenture is witneffed by

of

of

and and is hereby required to be regiftered by the faid as witness his

hand and feal, the, &c.

Memorial of a bargain and fale to be inrolled, which follows the leafe and release.

A Memorial to be registered, &c. of

AN indenture bearing date the

17

in the year of our Lord made between the faid M. of

of

the one part, and Q. R. of of the other part, purporting to be a deed of bargain and fale to be inrolled of and concerning the fame premises mentioned in the indenture of bargain and fale, dated, &c. and made between the faid A. B. of the one part, and the faid 2. R. of the other part: a memorial whereof is registered at the fame time herewith, (or as the cafe may be) which indenture. of bargain and and fale is witneffed by 7. M and W. J. and is hereby required to be registered by me the faid A. B. the grantor in the faid deed of bargain and fale mentioned, as witnefs my hand and feal, this

of

day of

17