Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Preamble
Whereas a certain Act of Parliament was passed in
the Session holden in the second and third years of the reign of Her present
Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled
An Act for the better protection of purchasers
against Judgments, Crown Debts, Lis pendens, and Fiats in Bankruptcy: 2
And whereas a certain other Act of Parliament was
passed in the Session holden in the seventeenth and eighteenth years of the
reign of Her said Majesty, intituled
An Act to amend the Law relating to the
Administration of the Estates of deceased persons; 3
And whereas a certain other Act of Parliament was
passed in the Session holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the
reign of Her said Majesty, intituled
An Act for the better protection of purchasers
against Judgments, Crown debts, cases of Lis Pendens and Life Annuities or
Rent charges; 4
And whereas a certain other Act of Parliament was
passed in the Session holden in the nineteenth and twentieth years of the
reign of Her said Majesty, intituled
An Act to amend the Laws of England and Ireland
affecting trade and commerce; 5 *
And whereas a certain other Act of Parliament was
passed in the Session holden in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of
the reign of Her said Majesty, intituled
An Act to enable persons to establish legitimacy,
and the validity of marriages, and the right to be deemed natural-born
subjects; 6
And whereas a certain other Act of Parliament was
passed in the Session holden in the twenty-second and twenty-third years of
the reign of her said Majesty, intituled
An Act to further amend the Law of property and to
relieve Trustees; 7
And whereas certain other Acts of Parliament were
passed in the Session holden in the twenty-third and twenty-forth years of the
reign of Her said Majesty, intituled respectively
An Act to further amend the Law of Property; 8
and
An Act to give to Trustees, Mortgagees, and others
certain powers now commonly inserted in Settlements, Mortgages, and Wills; 9
And whereas it is expedient to adopt and apply the
said several recited Acts of Parliament in the administration of Justice in
this Colony:
Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the
Governor of Western Australia and its dependencies, by and with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Council thereof,
that the said several
recited Acts of Parliament of Great Britain, and every clause, provision, and
enactment therein respectively contained, shall be, and the same are and is
hereby adopted and directed to be applied in the administration of Justice so
far as they can respectively be applied to the circumstances of the Colony.