Glebe Lands Leasing Powers (Ireland) Act, 1857

Interpretation of certain Terms.

II. In the Construction of this Act the Words “Lord Lieutenant” shall include any Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland; the Words “Successors in Estate” shall mean the Persons entitled for the Time being, after the Lessor, to the Receipt of the Rents of the Lands comprised in any Lease made under this Act; the Word “Lessee” shall include the personal Representative of any Lessee and his lawful Assigns; the Word “Lessor” shall include the Successors in Estate of any Lessor; the Words “Ecclesiastical Person” shall include Archbishops, Bishops, and all other Ecclesiastical Corporations, sole or aggregate; the Word “Town” shall mean any Borough or Town Corporate in Ireland, and any Town in which a Board of Municipal Commissioners shall have been elected under the Provisions of an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and eight, or in which Town Commissioners shall have been appointed under the Provisions of an Act of the Ninth Tear of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-two, or an Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and three, or any Act amending the same.