Copyhold Act 1852
COPYHOLD ACT 1852 | ||
CAP. LI. | ||
An Act to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the Commutation of Manorial Rights, and for the gradual Enfranchisement of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure. [30th June 1852.] | ||
4 & 5 Vict. c. 35. | ||
6 & 7 Vict. c. 23. | ||
7 & 8 Vict. c. 55. | ||
‘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 whereas the said Act 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 by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty: And whereas it is expedient to extend the Provisions of the said Acts in manner herein-after provided:’ May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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, as follows: |