Hamp Estate Act 1868
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1868 c. 5 |
| Year | 1868 |
ANNO TRICESIMO PEIMO & TRICESIMO SECUNDO
VICTORIA REGIME.
Cap.
5. "'":"
An Act to carry into effect an Arrangement
approved in the Suits of " Hamp v. Hamp"
" Hamp v.
Robinson,""
and " Hamp v. Bolt" now
depending in the High Court of Chancery, for
the Purpose of compromising certain opposing
Claims to the Real Estates of Francis Hamp
late of Bacton Villa in the Parish of
B'acton
in
the County of Hereford, Esquire
;
and for other
Purposes. [31st July 1868.]
W
HEREAS Francis Hamp late of Bacton Villa in the
Parish of Bacton in the County of Hereford, Banker,
departed this Life on the 27th Day of March 1849
leaving Mary Hamp of the City of Lichfield, Spinster, his Sister
and Heiress-at-Law and having by his Will dated the 6th Day of
November 1839, and a Codicil thereto dated the 24th Day of March
1849,
in effect devised a Cottage called Pear Tree Cottage, with
the Garden and Appurtenances , thereto belonging, and several
Parcels of Land containing Twenty Acres or thereabouts, at Bacton
[Private.] :L '• d d "'"' ' aforesaid,
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aforesaid, to John Ramp then of Cat ton in the Parish of Croxall
and County of Derby, but lately of Ooerseal in the County of
Leicester, Esquire, now deceased, and the Testator's Relative Thomas
Pratt of Coventry, Grocer, during the Life of Sarah Bolt, then the
Wife of the Testator's Bailiff or Land Steward James Bolt, formerly
Sarah Robinson, the Mother of Three of the Testator's natural
Children, and since deceased, upon trust to permit her to receive the
Bents and Profits thereof for her separate Benefit, and provided
for her a Life Annuity of £80 a Year in addition to a Life Annuity
of £20 a Year secured to her by the Testator's Bond, and provided
Portions of £5,000 each for his natural Son William Henry Hamp
Robinson, now often using the Surname of Hamp only, and for his
natural Daughter Frances Sarah Hamp Robinson, now Frances- •
Sarah Fisher, late the Wife and now the Widow of James Fisher,
Gentleman, deceased, the said Portion of the said Frances Sarah.,
Fisher being settled as therein expressed, and, subject to the saidf
Disposition for Life of the said Cottage and about Twenty Acres of
Land, devised all his Manors, Messuages, Parms, Lands, and Here-
ditaments situate in the several Parishes of Bacton, Abbeydore,
St. Margaret, Woolhope, and Walterstone, in the County of
Hereford, or elsewhere in the same County, with their respective
Rights, Pranchises, and Appurtenances, and also all his Manors,
Messuages, Parms, Lands, and Hereditaments situate in the several
Counties of Gloucester, Leicester, and Derby, or elsewhere in
England or Wales, with their respective Rights, Pranchises, and
Appurtenances, including the Freehold Hereditaments called the
Murdy (but in his said Will called the Merdy) which are referred
to in his Will as contracted to be purchased, but which were in
fact conveyed to him in his Lifetime for an Estate of or equivalent
to an Estate in Pee Simple by an Indenture bearing Date the
20Jh Day of October 1838, and all other Ms Real Estate whatsoever
and wheresoever (Mortgage and Trust Estates excepted), to the Use
of the said John Hamp and Thomas Bratt for a Term of 500 Years
from the Day of the Testator's Decease upon the Trusts and subject
to the Provisions therein-after declared concerning the same, and
from the Determination of the said Term and in the meantime
subject thereto to the Use of the Testator's natural Son Johm
Hampden Hamp Robinson and his Assigns during his Life, withoul
Impeachment of Waste, with Remainder to the Use of the said
James Bolt and John Bratt, Slate Merchant, and their Heirs, during
the Life of the said John Hampden Hamp Robinson, upon trust to
preserve contingent Remainders, with Remainder to the Use of the
first and every other Son of the Body of the said John Hampden
Hamp Robinson severally, successively, and one after another,
according to their respective Seniority and Priority of Birth, and the
Heirs Male of the Body of every such Son, with Remainder to the
Use
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Use of the said William Henry Hamp Robinson and his Assigns
during his Life, without Impeachment of "Waste, with Kemainder to
the Use of the said James Bolt and John Pratt and their Heirs
during the Life of the said William Henry Hamp 'Robinson in
trust to preserve contingent Remainders, with Remainder to the Use
of the first and other Sons of the said William Henry Hamp
Robinson successively and one after another according to their
respective Seniority and Priority of Birth, and the Heirs Male of the
Body of every such Son, and with an ultimate Remainder to the
Testator's own right Heirs for ever; and as to the said Term of
500 Years the Testator (if there should be a Deficiency of his
Personal Estate for the Payment of his Dehts and of the Legacies or
Portions and Annuities thereby bequeathed) declared Trusts of the
said Term for raising, by Sale or otherwise in manner therein
mentioned, such Sum of Money as should be sufficient to make good
such Deficiency, and for applying the same in Payment of the said
Debts,
Legacies, or Portions and Annuities in aid of his Personal
Estate accordingly; but the Testator declared that when the Trusts
of the said Term should have been performed or satisfied, or should
have become unnecessary or incapable of taking effect, and the
Trustees Costs and Charges should have been fully paid, the said
Term of 500 Years in the Hereditaments comprised therein, or so
much thereof as should remain unsold or undisposed of for the
Purposes aforesaid, should cease; and the Testator empowered the
Trustees or Trustee for the Time being of his "Will during the
Minority of either of his natural Sons the said John Hampden
Hamp Robinson and William Henry Hamp Robinson beneficially
entitled under the Limitations aforesaid to the Possession or Receipt
of the Rents and Profits of his said Real Estate, or any Part
thereof,
or during so much of the Minority of any of the Issue so entitled
as aforesaid of his said natural Sons respectively as should arise
within Twenty-one Years of the Testator's Decease (subject and
without Prejudice to the said Term of 500 Years), to enter into and
to hold possession of his said Real Estate, or any Part
thereof,
and
to receive the Rents and Profits
thereof,
and by and out of the
same apply any annual Sum or Sums of Money, according to the
Age or respective Ages of such Minor or Minors respectively, as
his said Trustees or Trustee should think proper, for or towards
the Maintenance and Education of such Minor or Minors respec-
tively, and subject thereto to invest and accumulate the Surplus
of the said Rents and Profits; and the Testator declared that at
the End of each such respective Period of Accumulation, or sooner
if the said Trustees or Trustee should think proper, they or he
should call in and convert the said accumulated Pund into Money,
and apply the same in discharge of any Principal Sums of Money
which should then affect the said Lands, or any Part
thereof,
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