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CONVEYANCING ACT 1881 - SECT 56

Receipt in deed or indorsed, authority for payment to solicitor.

56.(1) Where a solicitor produces a deed, having in the body thereof or
indorsed thereon a receipt for consideration money or other consideration, the
deed being executed, or the indorsed receipt being signed, by the person
entitled to give a receipt for that consideration, the deed shall be
sufficient authority to the person liable to pay or give the same for his
paying or giving the same to the solicitor, without the solicitor producing
any separate or other direction or authority in that behalf from the person
who executed or signed the deed or receipt.

(2) This section applies only in cases where consideration is to be paid or
given after the commencement of this Act.


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