Burial Ground Act, 1816

Ecclesiastical corporations may sell portions of land adjoining cemeteries for enlarging thereof; with certain consents.

[1.] It shall and may be lawful for any spiritual or ecclesiastical body corporate or spiritual person, being a corporation sole, possessing any land adjacent to any cemetery, churchyard, or burying ground, to sell, by indenture of bargain and sale, inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within six calendar months, for the purpose of consecration, such portion thereof as may be deemed necessary for enlarging any such cemetery, churchyard, or burying ground not exceeding one acre.