Enabling John Weston, John Jones (persons of unsound mind) and Sarah Weston to join in a division of estates Act 1843
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1843 c. 29 |
| Year | 1843 |
ANNO SEXTO & SEPTIMO
VICTORLE REGINJE.
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Cap.
29.
An Act for enabling' certain P
Joh n West on a arsons, on behalf of
erson of unsound Mind) and
Sarah his Wife and of John Jones (also a Pers
of unsound Mind), to join in carrying into effi
d Arrangement with other P
Co
mpromise
for a Division of th eal Estates of Arthur
to a Rule of
Gramer Miller deceased, accordin
Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer of PI
[24th August 1843.]
HEREAS it is alleged that Arthur Gramer Miller, late of Alleged
Will
Mancetter in the County of Warwick, did, in such Manner °f Arthur
as the Law then required for rendering valid Devises of
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Freehold Estates, duly sign and publish his last Will and Testament ioth June
in Writing, bearing Date the Tenth Day of June One thousand eight 1831.
hundred and thirty-one, in the Words, Figures, and Letters, and with
such Witnesses thereto as herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,)
« Mancetter y June 10th, 1831.
"I A. G. Miller of Mancetter in the County of Warwick do
hereby give and bequeath unto Miss Sarah Scholey the whole
of my Real Estates, subject to the Payment of the following
Legacies; namely, to Francis Ross the Sum of Five hundred
Pounds ; to Elizabeth Clifford the Sum of Five hundred
Pounds; to Joseph Ross the Sum of Two hundred Pounds;
[Private.'] q h to
6° & 7° VICTORIA, Cap.29.
to William Izon the Sum of Two hundred Pounds; to William
Ross the Sum of One hundred Pounds; to Rowland MilUngton
the Sum of Twenty Pounds; to the Poor of Mancetter the Sum
of Twenty Pounds a Year; to the Poor of Atherstone the Sum
of Twenty Pounds a Year. "A.G.Miller:*
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Thomas Chawner.
Willoughby Crofts.
John Crofts^9
But the Validity of such Will is disputed as herein-after mentioned:
And whereas the said Arthur Gramer Miller died in or about
the Month of December'One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one,
and on the Nineteenth Day of November Jn the Year One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-two Administration of the Goods, Chattels,
and Credits of the said Arthur Gramer Miller, with his said Will or
alleged Will annexed, was granted to the said Sarah Scholey by
the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry:
And whereas upon the Death of the said Arthur Gramer Miller
the said Sarah Scholey entered into the Possession or the Receipt of
the Rents and Profits of all his Real Estates, and continued in such
Possession or Receipt down to the Time of her Death herein-after
mentioned : And, whereas the Real Estates of the said Arthur Gramer
Miller consisted of Three Farms, situate in the Parish of Wolvey in the
County of Warwick, and of a Messuage and Lands in the Parish of
Mancetter in the same County, and containing in the whole Five
hundred and seventy-six Acres Three Roods Seventeen Perches, or
thereabouts, and more particularly mentioned and described in the
Schedule to this Act, and of the Manor or Lordship or reputed Manor
or Lordship of Over Whit acre in the same County, with the Chief Rents,
Rights, Members, and Appurtenances
thereof,
which is of very little, if
any,Value; And whereas the said Sarah Scholey did, in such Manner as
the Law then required for rendering valid Devises of Freehold Estates,
duly sign and publish her last Will and Testament in Writing, bearing
Date the Thirty-first Day of August One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-three, and thereby gave and devised unto her Friends, the
Reverend Henry Hutchins Clerk and Charles Weetman Farmer,
both of Mancetter aforesaid, and the Survivor of them, and the Heirs
and Assigns of such Survivor, all that her Freehold Farm called the
Temple Farm, together with the Manor Cottage, and all other Rights,
Members, and Appurtenances thereto belonging, situate at Wolvey
in the said County of Warwick, and then in the Occupation of Wil-
liam Johnson} upon Trust immediately after her Decease to sell the
same as therein mentioned, with Power for her said Trustees, and the
Survivor of them, and the Executors, Administrators, and Assigns of
such Survivor, to give Receipts and Discharges to the Purchasers for
their Purchase Monies; and she declared that her said Trustees
should stand possessed of the Monies to arise from such Sales in
Trust, in the first place, to pay all her just Debts, funeral and testa-
mentary Expences, and, in the next place, to pay the following Legacies
and Bequests; (that is to say,) to Thomas Chawner of Atherstone in
the County of Warwick, Surgeon, the Sum of Two thousand Pounds;
to the said Charles Weetman the Sum of One thousand Pounds; to
the said Henry Hutchins the Sum of Five hundred Pounds; to Mary
Anne
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