Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité
Titre propre
Dénomination générale des documents
- Document textuel
Titre parallèle
Compléments du titre
Mentions de responsabilité du titre
Notes du titre
Niveau de description
Dépôt
Cote
Zone de l'édition
Mention d'édition
Mentions de responsabilité relatives à l'édition
Zone des précisions relatives à la catégorie de documents
Mention d'échelle (cartographique)
Mention de projection (cartographique)
Mention des coordonnées (cartographiques)
Mention d'échelle (architecturale)
Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)
Zone des dates de production
Date(s)
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1749-1967; predominant 1749-1903 (Production)
Zone de description matérielle
Description matérielle
40.6 m of textual records and other material (338 volumes)
Zone de la collection
Titre propre de la collection
Titres parallèles de la collection
Compléments du titre de la collection
Mention de responsabilité relative à la collection
Numérotation à l'intérieur de la collection
Note sur la collection
Zone de la description archivistique
Nom du producteur
Historique de la conservation
Portée et contenu
Series forms part of the Nova Scotia Registry of Deeds fonds and consists of 336 land transaction registers and other registers, 1749-1903, recording the sale or transfer of land between grantor and grantee, mortgage assignments and releases, quit claim deeds and numerous other documents relating to land transactions. The documents recorded in the land transaction registers are transcriptions (the Registry's copy) of the original documents held by the grantor and grantee.
Found amongst the land transaction registers are an Allotment Book (volume 1), 1749-1769; Judgment Books (volumes 163, 218, 228, 241, 254, 271, 289, 305, 336) recording the County and Supreme Court judgments that affected deeded land or mortgages; and a Register of Horses (volume 267), 1887-1908, in which the purchase and sale of horses was recorded.
Series also includes a separate registration book for Musquodoboit, which briefly had its own registry and which includes deeds from 1807 to 1821; and one volume of Land Grants (Volume 4). The remaining volumes 1-13 of Land Grants are available on microfilm only; the original volumes have not been transferred to the Archives.
Zone des notes
État de conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Records were transferred to the Archives from the Land Registry Office in Dartmouth in 2004, 2008, and 2013.
Classement
Documents are primarily arranged in chronological order, by date of document registration, in numbered volumes.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Localisation des originaux
Disponibilité d'autres formats
The indexes, most land transaction registers, and Land Grant books were microfilmed in 1968-1969 ("old" microfilm) and again in 2004 ("new" microfilm).
Restrictions d'accès
Access is restricted to orignal volumes for preservation reasons. See reference copies on microfilm. Contact a Government Records Archivist for infomration about obtaining access to volumes not available on microfilm.
Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Instruments de recherche
To locate a particular document it is necessary to search the index by name of grantor (seller) or grantee (buyer) to identify a book and page number. The Halifax County Deed Indexes are available online on the FamilySearch.org website: Halifax County Deed Indexes
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Éléments associés
Accroissements
No further accruals expected.
Note générale
There are several gaps in the sequence of original land transaction registers held at the Archives. Registers that were in poor condition or had been disbound by the records creator were not transferred to the Archives.