Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1800

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1800 c. 41
Anno Regni GEORGII III. tricesimo nono & quadragesimo. An Act for explaining and amending several Acts, made in the thirty-second Year of KingHenry the Eighth, and the first, thirteenth, and fourteenth Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth , so far as respects Leases granted by Archbishops, Bishops, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, Deans and Chapters of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, Masters and Guardians of Hospitals, and others having any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Living or Promotion.

(39 & 40 Geo. 3) C A P. XLI.

[16th May 1800]

'WHEREAS Doubts have arisen whether Archbishops, Bishops, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, Deans and Chapters of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, Masters and Guardians of Hospitals, and others having any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Living or Promotion, who are by several Acts, passed in the Reigns of their late Majesties KingHenry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth , restrained from granting any Lease of their Estates whereon the accustomed yearly Rent is not reserved, can lawfully grant separate Leases of Parts of Lands or Tenements which have been usually demised by one Lease and under one Rent, reserving on the several Parts so demised less than the Rent anciently reserved on the Demise of the Whole, though the Aggregate Amount of the Rents so reserved on such separate Demises should be equal to or exceed the Amount of the annual accustomed Rent for the Whole: And whereas many such separate Leases have been granted, and great Inconvenience may arise to Persons claiming under such Leases, if such Leases should not be deemed valid and effectual, in case the Amount of the Rent anciently reserved on Demises of the Whole shall appear to have been reserved on the separate Demises of the different Parts; and the Power of dividing Tenements, anciently so demised, in one Parcel at one Rent, may in many Cases tend to improve the Value of the Estates belonging to such Ecclesiastical Persons and Bodies respectively, as well as to the Benefit of their Lessees and the Publick;' May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That in all Cases where any Honours, Castles, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tythes, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, being Parcel of the Possessions of any Archbishop, Bishop, Master and Fellows, Dean and Chapter, Master or Guardian of any Hospital, or any other Person or Persons, or Body or Bodies Politick or Corporate, having any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Living or Promotion, and having been anciently or accustomably demised by one Lease under one Rent, or divers Rents issuing out of the Whole, now are or shall hereafter be demised by several Leases to one or several Persons under an apportioned or several Rents, or where a Part only of such Honours, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tythes, Tenements, or other Hereditaments as last mentioned, are or shall be demised by a separate Lease or Leases, under a less Rent or less Rents than was or were accustomably reserved for the Whole by such former Lease, and the Residue thereof is or shall be retained in the Possession or Occupation of the Lessor or Lessors, the several and distinct Rents reserved on the separate Demises of the several specifick Parts thereof comprised in and demised by such several Leases, shall be deemed and taken to be the ancient and accustomed Rents for such specifick Parts respectively, within the Intent and Meaning of an Act, passed in the thirty-second Year of the Reign of his late Majesty KingHenry the Eighth, intituled, Lessees to enjoy the Farm against the Tenants in Tail ; and of an Act, passed in the first Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth , intituled, An Act giving Authority to the Queen's Majesty, upon the Avoldance of any Archbishop or Bishop, to take into her Hands certain of the Temporal Possessions thereof, recompensing the same with Parsonages impropriate, and Tythes ; and of another Act, passed in the thirteenth Year of the same Queen, intituled, Fraudulent Deeds made by Spiritual Persons, to defeat their Successors...

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