Section 13Part 0 —
Penalty on persons selling, etc., the same land twice over
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If any vendor or mortgagor of lands, tenements, or hereditaments within these Islands shall presume to execute a second or other deed of conveyance or sale of the same lands, tenements or hereditaments other than to the first vendee of such lands, tenements or hereditaments, or a second or other deed of mortgage without having taken notice in the said deed of mortgage of the first or prior mortgage or mortgages with which the said land, tenements or hereditaments stand charged at the time of executing the said deed, all and every person and persons so offending shall be tried and punished and subject to like forfeitures and penalties as by the laws of England is provided against all such persons as shall execute deeds of mortgage without taking notice of all prior mortgages made.