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CHAPTER 16
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To amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Persons and the Laws
respecting rights relative of Things and the different modes of acquiring
and transmitting such rights.
11th February, 1870
22nd January, 1874
This Code consolidates the following
ORDINANCE VII of 1868 (as amended by Ordinances: I of 1870, IV of
1907, XIV of 1913, II and V of 1920; Acts: III of 1930, XLII of 1933;
Ordinances: XL of 1935, XIX of 1937, III of 1938, XXXIX of 1939 and XXV
of 1940); ORDINANCE 1 of 1873 (as amended by Ordinances: I of 1908,
XIII of 1932; Act XXI of 1933; Ordinances: XX of 1934, XVIII of 1938 and
XXII of 1939); Article I of ORDINANCE VI of 1895 and Articles 2, 4, 5, 6,
7 (1) and 9 of ORDINANCE XIII of 1895.
This Code was subsequently amended by Ordinances: II and VII of
1944; Acts: XXVIII of 1948, XI of 1952; Ordinances: IV and XXXIX of
1961, XXI and XXV of 1962; Legal Notice 4 of 1963; Act XXVIII of 1963;
Legal Notice 46 of 1965; Acts: XXXI of 1965, II and XXXI of 1966, XVI of
1967, VI of 1968, VI and XXXVIII of 1972, XI and XXV of 1973; Legal
Notice 54 of 1973; Acts: XLVI of 1973, I and LIV of 1974, XXXVII of 1975;
Legal Notice 93 of 1975; Act LVIII of 1975; Legal Notice 148 of 1975; Act
LV of 1975; Legal Notice 46 of 1976; Acts: XXII, XXVII and XXXIX of
1976; Legal Notice 43 of 1977; Acts: VII and XI of 1977, XXII and XXX of
1979, XXX, XLIX and L of 1981, VII and IX of 1982, VI and XIII of 1983,
XX of 1984, VII of 1985, XII and XXXI of 1986; Legal Notice 161 of 1989;
Acts: VIII of 1990, XVII of 1991, IX of 1992, V and XXI of 1993, III and
XXVIII of 1994, and IV, XXIV and XXX of 1995; Legal Notice 212 of 1997;
Acts IX and XXII of 2000, XX and XXXI of 2002, III, VI, IX, XIII and XVIII
of 2004; Legal Notice 355 of 2004; Acts XI, XIII, XX and XXII of 2005, V
of 2006, VIII, XIII and XVIII of 2007; Legal Notice 407 of 2007; Acts III,
IV and XV of 2008, III, X, XII and XV of 2009, V, VIII, XX and XXIII of
2010, XIV and XXIV of 2011, and II, XV, XIX and XXIV of 2012; Legal
Notices 218, 311, 426 and 465 of 2012; Acts IV and VII of 2013, and IX
and XXV of 2014; Legal Notice 92 of 2015; Acts XI, XII, XVI, XX and XXX
of 2015, IV, XIII, XIV, XXIV, XXV, LII of 2016, VIII of 2017, XV of 2017,
X VII of 2017 , XXIII of 2017, VIII of 2018, XIII of 2018. , XXVII of 2018
XXXI of 2018, XXXII of 2018 , XXIV of 2018, XXXVI of 2018 and XLIII of
2018 XVII and XXV and XXVIII of 2019 and XXVII, XXIX, XLVII,
XXXIX, LXI and LXV of 2020, XXIV, XXV of 2021 and XXXVII of 2021 and
Legal Notice 339 of 2019 and 38 and 40 of 2021 and 212 of 2023 and Act
VI and XVII and XXXV of 2023 and XVII, XXVIII, XX, XXV and XXX of
2024, XXII and XXXIV of 2025 and III of 2026.
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