Administration and Probate Act 1929
56Executor may sign acknowledgment instead of
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56 Executor may sign acknowledgment instead of conveyance (1) If any real estate not under the Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) or the Land Titles Act 1925 is devised to any person by a will duly proved under this Act, the executor of the will or the administrator with the will annexed may, as the executor or administrator, instead of executing a conveyance to that person, sign an acknowledgment that the devisee is entitled to that real estate for the estate for which it is devised to him or her. (2) The acknowledgment may be registered under the law in force regulating the registration of deeds, and on registration of the acknowledgment the real estate vests in the devisee for the estate for which it is devised to him or her in the same way, and subject to the same trusts and liabilities, as if the executor or administrator had executed a conveyance of the acknowledgment.