Fee-Farm Rents (Ireland) Act 1851

FEE-FARM RENTS (IRELAND) ACT 1851

CAP. XX.

An Act to extend the Remedies provided by the Renewable Leasehold Conversion Act, for the Recovery of Fee-farm Rents under that Act, to all other Fee-farm Rents, and to other Rents in Ireland reserved upon Grants of Land in which the Grantors have no Reversion. [3d July 1851.]

12 & 13 Vict. c. 105. ss. 20, 21.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Thirteen Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and five, Sections Twenty and Twenty-one, certain Remedies were provided for the Recovery of Fee-farm Rents made payable by Grants under the Provisions of that Act; and it is expedient to extend such Remedies and Powers to all Fee-farm Rents, and also to all other Rents payable under Grants or written Instruments granting or containing Agreements for granting Land, and reserving or purporting to reserve thereout upon such Grants or Agreements Rent payable to the Grantor where the Person to whom such Rent is payable has no Reversion in such Land:’ Be it therefore 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,

Provisions of recited Act extended to Fee-farm and other Rents under Leases for Lives or for Years, save as herein excepted.

I. That all the Powers, Remedies, Provisions, and Enactments referred to and contained in the said herein-before mentioned Sections of the said recited Act shall henceforth extend and be applicable to all Fee-farm Rents, and also to other Rents reserved and payable under any Grants, Conveyances, or written Instruments granting or containing Agreements for granting any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in Fee Simple, or for a Life or Lives, or for Years, or for a Life or Lives and a Term of Years, or for a Life or Lives concurrent with a Term of Years, and reserving or purporting to reserve thereout Rent payable to the Grantor or Party agreeing to make such Grant, or to his or their respective Representatives, where the Person to whom such Rent is or shall be payable has or shall have no Reversion in such Land; save and except that nothing in this Act contained shall give or confer or be deemed to give or confer any Remedy by Ejectment for Nonpayment of Rent, in the Case of any Fee-farm Rent or Rent reserved upon any Grant or Agreement for a Grant in Fee (other than a Fee-farm Rent under the said recited Act); and save and except that nothing herein contained shall extend or refer to or include the Provisions contained in the said Twenty-first Section of the said recited Act relating to the Lien or Charge in the said Section mentioned: Provided always, that in any Avowry or Cognizance in pursuance of the Provisions of this Act for any Rent it shall not be necessary to describe any such Grant or Instrument as aforesaid as a Grant or Instrument made under or after the passing of the said recited Act.