No. 30. claim, or enjoy, or hereafter shall or may have, claim, or enjer • Geo. III. c. 16. whereof his Majesty, his Progenitors, Predecessors, or Ancestors, & whereof his Majesty, his Heirs, or Successors, or he or they by, from, or under whom his Majesty, his Heirs, or Successors, any Thing hath or lawfully claim, or some of them, by Force of some Right or Title to the same, have not or shall not have been answered, by Virtue of such Right or Title, the Rents, Revenues, Issues, or Profits thereof, within the Space of Sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing of every such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit or Proceeding as shall at any Time or Time hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof, nor the same have been nor shall have been duly in Charge, or stood insuper of Record as aforesaid, within the said Space of Sixty Years against all and every Person and Persons, their Heirs and Assigns, having, claiming, or pretending to have, or who shall or may have, claim, or pretend to have any Estate, Right, Tik. Interest, Claim, or Demand whatsoever, of, in, or to the same, by Force or Colour of any Letters Patents or Grants, upon Suggestion of Concealment or wrongful detaining, or not being in Charge, or defective Titles, or by, from, or under, any Patentees or Grantees, or any Letters Patents or Grants, upon Suggestion of Concealment or wrongful detaining, or not being in Charge, or defective Titles, of ot for which said Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, and Hereditaments, or any of them, no Verdict, Judgment, Decree, Judicial Order upon Hearing, or Sentence of any Court now standing in Force, hath been had or given, or any such Verdict, Judgment, Decree, Judicial Order upon Hearing, or Sentence of Court, shal hereafter be had or given, in any Action, Bill, Plaint, or Information. in any of his Majesty's Courts at Westminster, for or in the Name of the King's Majesty, or any of his Ancestors, Progenitors, Predeces sors, Heirs, or Successors, or for any of the said Patentees or Grantees, or for their or any of their Heirs, or Assigns, within the Space of sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing of every such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit or Proceeding as shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof as afore said. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That where the Rents, Revenues, Issues, or Profits of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Tythes, or Hereditaments, are or shall be in Charge, by, to, or with any Auditor or Auditors, or other proper Officer or Officers of the Revenue, such Rents, Revenues, Issues, and Profits, shall be held, deemed, and taken to be duly in Charge within the Meaning and Intent of this Act; any Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. III. Provided always, That this Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not extend to bar, impeach, or hinder his Majesty, bis Heirs or Successors, of, for, or from, any Manors, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, or Hereditaments, whereof any Reversion or Remainder now is in his Majesty, for or concerning the said Reversion or Remainder; nor of, for or from any Reversion or Remainder, or Possibility of Reversion or Remainder, in any of his Majesty's Progenitors, or Predecessors, or Ancestors, which by the Expiration, End, or other Determination of any limited Estate of Fee-simple, or of any Fee-tail or other particular Estate, hath or ought to have first fallen or become in Possession, or which shall, or may, or ought hereafter first to fall or come in Possession, within the Space of sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing of any such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit or Proceeding, as shall at any No. 30. Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof; nor of, for, or from any Right 9 Geo. III. c. 16. or Title first accrued or grown to his Majesty, or any of his Progenitors, Predecessors, or Ancestors, or which shall first accrue or grow to his Majesty, or any of his Heirs, or Successors, of, in, or to, any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, or Hereditaments, at any Time or Times within the Space of sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing of any such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit of Proceeding as shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof, and not before. IV. Provided also, and be it enacted by Authority of this present Limitation of the Parliament, That this Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not act with respect extend to any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, or Here- to Grants from the Crown of any liditaments, mentioned to be granted or conveyed by any of his Ma- mited Estate, &c. jesty's Progenitors, Predecessors, or Ancestors, or by any other under whom his Majesty claimeth, to any Person or Persons, of any limited Estate in Fee-simple, or of any Estate in Tail, or other particular Estate, which several Estates (if the same had been good and effectual in Law,) have or ought to have first fallen or become in Possession, or will or ought first to fall or come in Possession, within the Space of sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing, of any such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit or Proceeding as shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof as aforesaid; nor to any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, or Hereditaments, mentioned to be granted or conveyed by any of his Majesty's Progenitors, Predecessors, or Ancestors, or by any other under whom his Majesty claimeth, to any Person or Persons in Feetail, or other particular Estate, whereof the Reversion or Inheritance (if such Estate Tail, or other particular Estate, had been good and effectual in Law,) should have been and continued in his Majesty, or any of his Progenitors, Predecessors, or Ancestors, or should or ought hereafter to be and continue in his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, at any Time within the Space of sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing of any such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit or Proceeding, as shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof as aforesaid the usual Tenures. V. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority of this The said Manors, present Parliament, That all and singular the said Manors, Lands, &c. to be holden Tenements, and Hereditaments, shall at all Times hereafter be holden of the Crown upon of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, and of other Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, their Heirs and Successors respectively, by the same Tenures, Services, Fee-farms, Chief-rents, Heriots, and other Duties to all Intents and Purposes, as the same should or ought of right to have been holden, if the Estates, Rights, and Interests, established and made sure by this present Act, had beep, before the making of this Act,. firm, good, and effectual in Law. General Reserva VI. Saving to every Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, their Heirs and Successors (other than his most Excellent tion of Rights. Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, and other than all Patentees or Grantees of Concealments, or defective Titles, and all and every Person or Persons claiming from, by, or under them, or any of them, for or in respect or by reason of any such Patents or Grants of Concealments, or defective Titles,) all such Rights, Title, Interest, Estate, Rents, Commons, Customs, Duties, Profits, and other Claims and Demands whatsoever, in, to, or out of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, Tythes, or Hereditaments, as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act; any Thing in this 9 Geo. III. c. 16. Act to the contrary notwithstanding. No. 30. VII. Provided also, and be it enacted, That where any Fee Farm Rent, or other Rent or Rents, have been or shall be answered and actually paid to the King's Majesty, or to any his Predecessors, Heirs, or Successors, within the Space of Sixty Years next before an Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit or Proceeding, shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof, out of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of which Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, the Estates, Rights, or Interests being defective, are established, and made sure by this present Act, that the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall from henceforth for ever have, hold, and enjoy the said Rents and Arrearages thereof, in such Manner and Form, and as fully and amply, as the same are or were enjoyed at any Time within the said Space of Sixty Years. VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be prejudicial to the Right, Title, or Claim, of any Person or Persons in or to any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, by virtue of, or under any Grant or Grants,❘ Letters l'atent or Letters Patents, from any of his Progenitors, Ancestors, or Predecessors, or by virtue of, or under any Grant or Grants, Letters Patent or Letters Patents, from his Majesty, made or passed before the First Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Nine; so as such Right, Title, or claim, be prosecuted with Effect by Bill, Plaint, Information, or other Suit, or Proceeding, in some of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, within the Space of One Year from the First Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Nine. IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be prejudicial to any Right, Title, or Claim, which his Majesty now hath to any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, within the Manor of East Greenwich, in the County of Kent; or to any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, within the Precinct, District, or Liberty, commonly called the The Savoy, in the County of Middlesex; or to any the Manors, Messuages, Advowsons, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Appurtenances, being the Estate and Possession of the late Hospital of the Savoy, or of the Master and Chaplains of the said Hospital; so as such Right, Title, or Claim, be prosecuted with Effect by Bill, Plaint, or Information, or other Suit or Proceeding, in some of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, within the Space of two Years from the first Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-nine. X. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That no putting in Charge, nor standing insuper, nor taking or answering the Farm Rents, Revenues, or Profits of any of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, by Force, Colour, or Pretext of any Letters Patent or Grants of Concealments, or defective Titles, or of Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, out of Charge, or by Force, Colour, or Pretext, of any Inquisitions, Presentments, by or by Reason of any Commission or other Authority to find out Concealments, defective Titles, or Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments out of Charge, shall be deemed, construed, of taken to be a putting in Charge, standing insuper, or taking or answering the Farm Rents, Revenues, or Profits by or to his Majesty, or any of his Progenitors or Predecessors, Heirs or Successors; unless thereupon such Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, have been or shall be, opon some Information or Suit, on the Behalf of No. 30. his Majesty, or some of his Progenitors or Predecessors, Heirs or Successors, upon a lawful Verdict given or to be given, or Demurrer in 9 Geo. Ill. e. 16. Law adjudged, or upon a Hearing, ordered or decreed for his Majesty, or some of his Progenitors or Predecessors, Heirs or Successors, or some of them, within the Space of Sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing of every such Action, Bill, Plaint, Informa tion, Commission, or other Suit or Proceedings as shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof as aforesaid. No. 31. 19 George III. c. 45-An Act to enable the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster to sell and dispose of certain Fee-farm Rents, and other Rents, - and to enfranchise Copyhold and Customary Tene ments, within their Survey, and to encourage the Growth of Timber on Lands held of the said Duchy. No. 32. 26 George III. c. 87.-An Act for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the State and Condition of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, belonging to the Crown; and to sell or alienate Fee-farm or other unimprovable Rents. No. 33. 27 George III. c. 34.-An Act to amend an Act, passed in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to enable the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster to sell and dis, ose of certain Fee-farm Rents, and other Rents, and to enfranchise Copyhold and Customary Tenements within their Survey; and to encourage the Growth of Timber on Lands held of the said Duchy; and to enable the said Chancellor and Council to discharge Incumbrances affecting the Possessions of the said Duchy. No. 34. 30 George III. c. 50.-An Act to continue and amend an Act, made in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the State and Condition of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues belonging to the Crown; and to sell or alienate Fee farm, and other unimprovable Rents. No. 35. 34 Geo. III c. 75. recited. 34 George III. c. 75.-An Act for the better Management of the Land Revenue of the Crown, and for the Sale of Fee-farm and other unimprovable Rents. [11th June, 1794.] WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made for the better Management of the Land Revenues of the Crown, with1 Anna, Cap. 1, in the Ordering and Survey of the Exchequer in England: And whereas by an Act, made in the first Year of the Reign of Queen Anne. (intituled, An Act for the beller Support of her Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown,) it was (amongst other Things) enacted and declared, that all and every Grant, Lease, or other Assurance which, from and after the five and twentieth Day of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Two, • should be made or granted by the said Queen, her Heirs or Successors, Kings or Queens of this Realm, under any of the Seals therein mentioned, or by Copy of Court Roll, or otherwise howsoever, of any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tithes, Woods, ⚫ or other Hereditaments, (Advowsons of Churches and Vicarages only 'excepted,) to any Person or Persons, Body Politick or Corporate whatever, whereby any Estate or Interest should pass from the said Queen, her Heirs or Successors, should be utterly void and of none • Effect unless the same should be made for some Term or Estate not 'exceeding Thirty-one Years, or three Lives, and unless there should be reserved, by such Grants, Leases, or Assurances, such Rents as in the said Act are expressed; in which said Act is contained a Proviso, that where the greatest Part of the Yearly Value of any Tene⚫ments or Hereditaments belonging to the said Queen, her Heirs and Successors, should at the Time of making any Lease or Grant thereof consist of the Building or Buildings thereupon, which might want to ⚫ be repaired or re-edified, in every such Case to encourage the Rebuild⚫ing or Reparation thereof, it was declared and enacted, that it should be lawful for the said Queen, her Heirs and Successors, at any Time after the said five and twentieth Day of March, One Thousand Seven • Hundred and Two, to demise or grant such Tenements or Hereditaments to any Person or Persons for any Term or Estate, so as such Term and Estate did not exceed Fifty Years, or three Lives, and so ' as such Lease or Grant should be made to commence from the Date or making thereof; or if such Grant or Lease should be made to take • Effect in Reversion or Expectancy, that then the same, together wih the Estate or Estates in Possession of and in the same Tenements or • Hereditaments, should not exceed Fifty Years, or Three Lives from ⚫ the Date or making thereof as aforesaid, and so as the same should not be made dispunishable of Waste, and so as there should be re'served and payable upon every such Lease or Grant, during such Term, not exceeding Fifty Years, or Three Lives, as much Kent as was by the said Act required to be reserved for the same Tenements or Hereditaments respectively, in case of a Lease not exceeding One and Thirty Years or Three Lives, and not otherwise: And whereas, the better to encourage the erecting of large substantial Houses and Buildings upon the Lands of the Crown within the Ordering and Survey aforesaid, and for the Improvement of the Revenue arising therefrom, it is expedient that the Powers in and by the said Act contained and given for demising and granting any Tenements or Hereditaments of the Description last aforesaid should be enlarged, and ⚫ further Provision made for securing an Improvement and Increase · |