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Where any Question shall arise touching the Title to Money to be paid, the Person who shall be in Possession of the Lands at the Time of such Purchase shall be deemed entitled thereto according to such Possession.
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XXI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where any Question shall arise touching the Title of any Person to any Money to be paid into the Bank of Ireland, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in pursuance of this Act, for the Purchase of any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or of any Estate, Right, or Interest in any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, to be purchased in pursuance of this Act, or to any Public Funds or Annuities to be purchased with any such Money, or to the Dividends or Interest of any such Funds or Annuities, the Person or Persons who shall have been in Possession of such Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments at the Time of such Purchase, and all Persons claiming under such Person or Persons or under the Possession of such Person or Persons, shall be deemed and taken to have been lawfully entitled to such Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments according to such Possession, until the contrary shall be shown to the Satisfaction of the said Court of Chancery; and the Dividends or Interest of the Funds or Annuities to be purchased with such Money, and also the Capital of such Funds or Annuities, shall be paid, applied, and disposed of accordingly, unless it shall be made appear to the said Court that such Possession was a wrongful Possession, and that some other Person or Persons was or were lawfully entitled to such Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or to some Estate or Interest therein.
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