Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated ActsWhereas an Act was passed in the third and fourth years of King William and
Queen Mary, intituled An Act for the Relief of Creditors against Fraudulent
Devises , 5 which was made perpetual by an Act passed in the sixth and seventh
years of King William the Third, intituled An Act for continuing several Laws
therein mentioned : 6
And whereas an Act was passed by the Parliament of Ireland, in the fourth year
of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for Relief of Creditors against Fraudulent
Devises : 7
And whereas an Act was passed in the forty-seventh year of his late Majesty
King George the Third, intituled An Act for more effectually securing the
Payment of Debts of Traders : 8
And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of the said recited Acts
should be enlarged, and that the said recited Acts should be repealed, in
order that all the provisions relating to this matter should be consolidated
in one Act:
Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same —