Literary and Scientific Institutions Act, 1854

Form of Grants, &c.

XIII. All Grants, Conveyances, and Assurances of any Site for an Institution under the Provisions of this Act may be made according to the Form following, or as near thereto as the Circumstances of the Case will admit; (that is to say,)

‘I, or we, [or the Corporate Title of a Corporation,] under the Authority of an Act passed in the             Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled              do hereby freely and voluntarily, and without any valuable Consideration [or do in consideration of the Sum of              to me, or us, or the said             paid], grant and convey [add, if necessary, enfranchise] to              all [Description of the Premises] and all [my, or our, or the Right, Title, and Interest of the              to and in the same and every Part thereof, to hold unto and to the Use of the said Corporation and their Successors, or of the said              and his or their [Heirs or Executors or Administrators or Successors], for the Purposes of the said Act, and to be applied as a Site for              and for no other Purpose whatever; such              to be under the Management and Control of [set forth the Mode in which and the Persons by whom the Institution is to be managed and directed; in Cases where the Land is purchased, exchanged or demised, usual Covenants or Obligations for Title may be added]. In witness whereof the conveying and other Parties have hereunto set their Hands and Seals, [or Seals only, as the Case may be,] this                  Day of              Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said              in the Presence of             of            .’

And no Bargain and Sale or Livery of Seisin shall be requisite in any Conveyance intended to take effect under the Provisions of this Act, nor more than One Witness to the Execution by the conveying Party.