Apportionment Act, 1834

All Rents, Annuities, and other Payments coming due at fixed Periods to be apportioned;

subject to all just Deductions.

Remedies for obtaining the apportioned Parts.

II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act all Rents Service reserved on any Lease by a Tenant in Fee or for any Life Interest, or by any Lease granted under any Power, (and which Leases shall have been granted after the passing of this Act), and all Rents Charge and other Rents, Annuities, Pensions, Dividends, Moduses, Compositions, and all other Payments of every Description, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, made payable or coming due at fixed Periods under any Instrument that shall be executed after the passing of this Act, or (being a Will or Testamentary Instrument) that shall come into operation after the passing of this Act, shall be apportioned so and in such Manner that on the Death of any Person interested in any such Rents, Annuities, Pensions, Dividends, Moduses, Compositions, or other Payments as aforesaid, or in the Estate, Fund, Office, or Benefice from or in respect of which the same shall be issuing or derived, or on the Determination by any other Means whatsoever of the Interest of any such Person, he or she, and his or her Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall be entitled to a Proportion of such Rents, Annuities, Pensions, Dividends, Moduses, Compositions, and other Payments according to the Time which shall have elapsed from the Commencement or last Period of Payment thereof respectively (as the Case may be), including the Day of the Death of such Person, or of the Determination of his or her Interest, all just Allowances and Deductions in respect of Charges on such Rents, Annuities, Pensions, Dividends, Moduses, Compositions, and other Payments being made; and that every such Person, his or her Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall have such and the same Remedies at Law and in Equity for recovering such apportioned Parts of the said Rents, Annuities, Pensions, Dividends, Moduses, Compositions, and other Payments, when the entire Portion of which such apportioned Parts shall form Part shall become due and payable, and not before, as he, she or they would have had for recovering and obtaining such entire Rents, Annuities, Pensions, Dividends, Moduses, Compositions, and other Payments if entitled thereto, but so that Persons liable to pay Rents reserved by any Lease or Demise, and the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments comprised therein, shall not be resorted to for such apportioned Parts specifically as aforesaid, but the entire Rents of which such Portions shall form a Part shall be received and recovered by the Person or Persons who if this Act had not passed would have been entitled to such entire Rents; and such Portions shall be recoverable from such Person or Persons by the Parties entitled to the same under this Act in any Action or Suit at Law or in Equity.