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Infant Suitors in Equity Entitled to Stock Act 1812

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1812 c. 32
Year1812
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quinquagesimo Secundo. An Act for the Relief of Infant Suitors in Courts of Equity, entitled to Stock or Annuities in any of the Public or other Funds, transferrable at the Bank ofEngland .

(52 Geo. 3) C A P. XXXII.

[20th April 1812]

'WHEREAS Inconvenience has been experienced from the Want of Authority in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer to direct for the Use of Infants the Payment of the Dividends of Stock belonging to such Infants, and standing in their Names in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank ofEngland :' 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 Spritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer respectively, in any Cause depending or hereafter to be depending in the said Courts respectively, to order and direct all or any Dividends due and belonging or hereafter to become due and belonging to any Infant or Infants, Parties to any such Cause, on any of the Public or other Stocks, Funds or Annuities whatsoever, transferrable or which shall or may hereafter be made transferrable in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank ofEngland , standing in the Name or Names of such Infant or Infants, and to which such Infant or Infants is or are beneficially entitled, to be paid to any Guardian or Guardians of such Infant or Infants respectively, or to any other Person or Persons, according to the Discretion of such Courts respectively, to or for the Maintenance and Education, or otherways for the Use and Benefit of such Infant or Infants; such Guardian or Guardians, or other Person or Persons, to whom such Payment is directed to be made, being named in the Order directing such Payment; and the Receipt, Acquittance or Discharge of such Guardian or Guardians, or...

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