Settled Estates Act, 1877

With whose consent such application to be made.

24. Subject to the exceptions herein-after contained, every application to the Court must be made with the concurrence or consent of the following parties; namely,

Where there is a tenant-in-tail under the settlement in existence and of full age, then the parties to concur or consent shall be such tenant-in-tail, or if there is more than one such tenant-in-tail, then the first of such tenants-in-tail and all persons in existence having any beneficial estate or interest under or by virtue of the settlement prior to the estate of such tenant-in-tail, and all trustees having-any estate, or interest on behalf of any unborn child prior to the estate of such tenant-in-tail;

And in every other case the parties to concur or consent shall be all the persons in existence having any beneficial estate or interest under or by virtue of the settlement, and also all trustees having any estate or interest on behalf of any unborn child.