Land Law (Ireland) Act 1888

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1888 c. 13
Year1888


Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1888;

(51 & 52 Vict.) CHAPTER 13.

An Act to amend Section One of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, in regard to Leaseholders.

[28th June 1888]

Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

S-1 Certain assignments, made without consent in writing, to be valid.

1 Certain assignments, made without consent in writing, to be valid.

1. No application under section one of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, made by any person claiming as lessee under a lease containing an agreement restraining or prohibiting assignment shall be disallowed on the ground that such lease has been assigned contrary to such agreement, when the landlord has consented to such assignment, and such consent has been established by evidence satisfactory to the court, notwithstanding that such consent has not been given, made, or evidenced in the manner prescribed by the tenth section of the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 1860: Provided always, that any person claiming to be lessee under any lease, whose claims shall have been allowed by the court under this section, and his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall be estopped in any proceedings whatever from denying that such person was assignee of such lease at the time when his claim was allowed.

For the purposes of this Act the term ‘assignment’ shall include an equitable assignment, and the term ‘lessee’ in section one of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887, shall include persons entitled to the interest of the lessee under such equitable assignment.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theLand Law (Ireland) Act, 1888;and the Land Law...

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