Leases Act, 1850

Where during possession under invalid lease reversioner is able and willing to confirm such lease without variation, lessee shall accept such confirmation on request.

3. Where during the continuance of the possession taken under any such invalid lease as in the said first-recited Act mentioned the person for the time being entitled (subject to such possession as aforesaid) to the hereditaments comprised in such lease, or to the possession or the receipt of the rents and profits thereof, is able to confirm such lease without variation, the lessee, his heirs, executors, or administrators (as the case may require,) or any person who would have been bound by the lease if the same had been valid, shall, upon the request of the person so able to confirm the same, be bound to accept a confirmation accordingly; and such confirmation may be by memorandum or note in writing, signed by the persons confirming and accepting respectively, or by some other persons by them respectively thereunto lawfully authorized; and after confirmation and acceptance of confirmation such lease shall be valid, and shall be deemed to have had from the granting thereof the same effect as if the same had been originally valid.

[S. 4 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]