SCHEDULE E. S. 7.

A.D. 1877.

III. TABLE OF FEES FOR BOTH ESTATES.

Where the whole estate and effects of the intestate shall not exceed in value twenty pounds, the sum of five shillings, and where 5 they shall exceed in value twenty pounds, the sum of five shillings and the further sum of one shilling for every ten pounds or fraction of ten pounds by which the value shall exceed twenty pounds; and in testate estates the like fees, together with the ordinary charges exigible for the recording of the will or other writing of the testate.

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An Act to amend the Acts seventeenth and eighteenth A.D. 1877. Victoria, chapter one hundred and thirteen, and thirtieth

and thirty-first Victoria, chapter sixty-nine.

BE

E it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

of Acts in

1. The Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall, as to any Application testator or intestate dying after the thirty-first December one Schedule. thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, be held to extend to a testator or intestate dying seised or possessed of or entitled to any land or other hereditaments of whatever tenure which shall at 10 the time of his death be charged with the payment of any sum or sums of money by way of mortgage, or any other equitable charge, including any lien for unpaid purchase money; and the devisee or legatee or heir shall not be entitled to have such sum or sums discharged or satisfied out of any other estate of the testator or 15 intestate unless (in the case of a testator) he shall within the meaning of the said Acts have signified a contrary intention; and such contrary intention shall not be deemed to be signified by a charge of or direction for payment of debts upon or out of residuary real and personal estate or residuary real estate.