Maynooth College Act 1845

Such Corporate Body may take and possess any Personal Property, and also Lands not exceeding the annual Value of 3.000l exclusiveof the Property already acquired by the Trustees.

II. And be it enacted, That the said Body Politic and Corporate, and their Successors, by the said Name, shall be for ever able and capable in Law to take, purchase, receive, possess, hold, and enjoy to them and their Successors any Goods or Chattels or Personal Property whatsoever, and also be able and capable in Law (notwithstanding the Statutes in Mortmain) to take, purchase, hold, and enjoy to them and their Successors any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments whatsoever the yearly Value of which shall not exceed in the whole the Sum of Three thousand Pounds, exclusive of the Value of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments already purchased or acquired by the said Trustees; and it shall be lawful for all and every Person and Persons, and Bodies Politic and Corporate, otherwise competent, to grant, sell, alien, and convey in Mortmain unto and to the Use of the said Body Politic and Corporate incorporated by this Act any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments not exceeding in the whole such annual Value as aforesaid.