Copyhold Act 1844
Copyhold Act 1844 | ||
CAP. LV. | ||
An Act to amend and explain the Acts for the Commutation of certain Manorial Rights in respect of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure, and in respect of other Lands subject to such Rights; and for facilitating the Enfranchisement of such Lands, and for the Improvement of such Tenure. [29th July 1844.] | ||
4 & 5 Vict. c. 35. | ||
Provision of former Acts as to Recovery of Expences, Costs, &c. to extend to Cases where there shall not be an Apportionment. | ||
‘WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act for the Commutation of certain Manorial Rights in respect of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure, and in respect of other Lands subject to such Rights; and for facilitating the Enfranchisement of such Lands, and for the Improvement of such Tenure, and was amended and explained by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty ; and it is expedient further to amend and explain the said Acts in certain respects:’ Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Provisions of the aforesaid Acts, or either of them, as to the Recovery of Expences, Costs, and Charges to be paid by any Tenant, being a Trustee, and not beneficially interested in the Lands of which he stands admitted Tenant, to be affected by any Commutation or Enfranchisement under the aforesaid Acts or this Act, shall extend as well to Cases in which there shall not be an Apportionment on Commutation or Enfranchisement in pursuance of the said aforesaid Acts or this Act, as to Cases in which there shall be an Apportionment on Commutation or Enfranchisement in pursuance thereof. |