Recreation Grounds Act, 1859

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Form of conveyance.

9 Geo. 2. c. 36.

2. Any such conveyance of land to trustees may be in the following form, subject to any modification thereof which the case may require:

“I, A.B., do hereby convey and grant to             , as trustees for public ground for the parish [or parishes] of              [here describe the lands conveyed or granted], to be held by them as public ground for the purposes of the Recreation Grounds Act, 1859.”

And it is hereby enacted, that the grant or conveyance of such lands shall not require enrolment, nor to be by indenture, and shall be valid, although the donor or grantor shall die within twelve calendar months after the making of such grant,[¹] any of the provisions of the Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter thirty-six, to the contrary notwithstanding.

[¹ The provisions of 9 Geo. 2. c. 36, referred to, are rep. 51 & 52 Vict. c. 42. s. 18, but see terms of repeal.]