Partition Act 1876
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1876 c. 17 |
Partition Act, 1876
(39 & 40 Vict.) 17.
An Act to amend the Partition Act, 1868.
[27th June 1876]
B E 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:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as thePartition Act, 1876, and shall be read as one with the Partition Act, 1868.
2 Application of Act.
2. This Act shall apply to actions pending at the time of the passing of this Act as well as to actions commenced after the passing thereof, and the term ‘action’ includes a suit, and the term ‘judgment’ includes decree or order.
3 Power to dispense with service of notice of decree or order in special cases.
3. Where in an action for partition it appears to the court that notice of the judgment on the hearing of the cause cannot be served on all the persons on whom that notice is by the Partition Act, 1868, required to be served, or cannot be so served without expense disproportionate to the value of the property to which the action relates, the court may, if it thinks fit, on the request of any of the parties interested in the property, and notwithstanding the dissent or disability of any others of them, by order, dispense with that service on any person or class of persons specified in the order, and, instead thereof, may direct advertisements to be published at such times and in such manner as the court shall think fit, calling upon all persons claiming to be interested in such property who have not been so served to come in and establish their respective claims in respect thereof before the Judge in Chambers within a time to be thereby limited. After the expiration of the time so limited all persons who shall not have so come in and established such claims, whether they are within or without the jurisdiction of the court (including persons under any disability), shall be bound by the proceedings in the action as if on the day of the date of the order dispensing with service they had been served with notice of the judgment, service whereof is dispensed with; and thereupon the powers of the court under the Trustee Act, 1850, shall extend to their interests in the property to which the action relates as if they had been parties to the action; and the court may thereupon...
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