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Corporations and others may sell or demise land to the receiver.
In case of disagreement, &c. value shall be assessed by a jury.
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17. It shall be lawful for all bodies corporate, and also for all commissioners or trustees for public purposes, and for tenants for life or in tail, and for the husbands, guardians, trustees, committees, or attornies of such of the proprietors or persons interested in any lands or buildings required for the purposes of this Act as shall by reason of any legal disability or of absence beyond the seas be incapable of acting for themselves, to contract and agree with the receiver for the time being, either for the absolute sale of such lands or buildings, or for a lease thereof for such period as the receiver shall require, and to convey, demise, or grant the same to the receiver in trust for the purposes of this Act; and all such contracts, sales, conveyances, leases, and grants shall be valid and effectual in law to all intents and purposes; and in case any body corporate, commissioners, trustees, or other persons hereby authorized to contract on behalf of themselves or others as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to agree with, or by reason of disability or absence shall be prevented from agreeing with, the receiver for the sale or lease of any land or buildings required by him, or in case the proprietors or persons interested therein cannot be found or known, or shall not produce and evince a clear title to the land or buildings so to be purchased or rented, or to the interest they shall claim therein, to the satisfaction of the receiver, in every such case all the powers now by law vested in the commissioners for making wide and convenient streets and passages in the city of Dublin, and all provisions made by any Act or Acts relating to such commissioners, and now in force with regard to the valuation of estates and interest by a jury, the conclusive effect of the verdict of the jury, and all matters preparatory to, concomitant with, and consequent or contingent upon the valuation by a jury, shall, so far as the same are or can be applicable, be applied and extended to the valuation of any land or buildings required for the purposes of this Act, in as full and amplė a manner, to all intents and purposes, as if those provisions had been repeated and expressly re-enacted in this Act; and all such matters as by those provisions are authorized or required to be done by such commissioners, or any number of them, shall under this Act be done by the receiver for the time being.
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