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CIVIL LAW (WRONGS) ACT 2002 - SECT 220

Partial abolition of Mocambique rule

    (1)     The jurisdiction of a court in any proceeding is not excluded or limited only because the proceeding relates to land or other immovable property outside the ACT.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not authorise a court to adjudicate on title to, or the right to the possession of, land or other immovable property outside the ACT.

    (3)     A court is not required to exercise jurisdiction in a proceeding relating to land or other immovable property outside the ACT if the court considers that it is an inappropriate forum in relation to the proceeding.

Note     The Law Reform (Abolitions and Repeals) Act 1996

abolished the following:

              •     the estate pur autre vie

              •     the common law misdemeanours of criminal libel, blasphemous libel, seditious libel and obscene libel

              •     the right to levy or make distress for rent.



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