Leases for Cotton Manufacture Act 1800

Covenants for renewal shall be void where manufacture is neglected for 2 years.

II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That where any lease for a term of lives, with covenant for renewal, shall be made, in pursuance of the several provisions and powers herein before made and enacted, in case the said manufacture. in consideration of which the said lease for lives, with covenant for renewal, shall have been granted as aforesaid, shall be neglected or omitted to be well and effectually carried on by or on behalf of the person who shall at such time be entitled to the interest in such lease, for any two years during the term thereby granted, that then and in such case the said lease shall be deemed, taken, and considered as a lease for the then subsisting lives merely, and the covenant for renewal shall from thence be deemed, taken, and considered as utterly null and void to all intents and purposes, as if said covenant had never been inserted therein, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.