VPRS 12444 Register of Mortgages

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The Master in Equity (and Lunacy) was responsible until 1940 (and the transfer of the function to VA 719 Office of the Public Trustee) for the general care protection and management or supervision of the management of the estates of all lunatics, persons of unsound mind and those incapable of managing their own affairs. The Master, under S 182 of the Act, was given broad reaching power to manage the estates of all patients under the Act, being able to manage their affairs according to his own judgment with management to be returned to the patient upon his discharge and assets to the executors and administrators of estates upon the undischarged patients death. All management of estates was to be subject to the provisions of the Audit Act.

This series gives details of mortgages administered on behalf of lunatic patients by the Master in Lunacy.

The record gives details of the estate being administered, details of the mortgagor and mortgagee and the location of the property and details of the terms of the mortgage and related payments.