Thornhill Estate Act 1856
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1856 c. 2 |
| Year | 1856 |
ANNO DECIMO NONO & VICESIMO
VICTORLE REGESLE.
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Cap.2.
An Act for continuing in force, during the Minority
of Mrs. Clara Clarke Thornhill, the Wife of
William Capel Clarke Thornhill, of Swakeleys in
the County of Middlesex, Esquire, the Powers
conferred by "-ThornhiWs Estate Act, 1852,"
and " Thomhiirs Estate Act, 1854," and for
other Purposesi [23d June 1856.]
"W "W THERE AS at the Time of the passing of the Acts of Parlia-
%/%J ment next herein-after mentioned, Clara Clarke Thorn-
* * hill, now the Wife of William Capel Clarke Thornhill of
Sw.akeleys in the County of Middlesex, but then Clara- Thornhill
Spinster, and who is still an Infant under the Age of Twenty-one
Years,
to wit, of the Age of Twenty Years or thereabouts, was, under
and by virtue of the Devises c'ontained in the Will of her paternal
Grandfather Thomas Thornhill, of Fixby in the County of York,
Esquire, deceased, who died in the Year One thousand eight hundred,
andN which said Will bears Date the Sixteenth Day of April One
thousand seven hundred and ninety, and of the Events which had
[Private.] p p happened
150 19° & 20° VICTORIA, Cap.2.
ThomhilTs Estate Act, 1856.
happened, legal Tenant in Tail in possession 6f various Estates in the
County of York, with Remainder to her Infant Half Sisters Honoria
Louisa Thomhill and Eleanor Frances Thornhitt, both then and now
Infants under the Age of Twenty-one Years, successively in Tail
General, with divers Remainders over, and subject to a Jointure Rent-
charge of Two thousand Pounds charged upon the said Estates by
Thomas Thomhill of Fixby aforesaid, the Father of the said Clara
Thomhill, by Indenture dated the Thirteenth Day of November One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, in favour of his Wife Honoria
Thomhill the Mother of the said Honoria Louisa Thomhill and
Eleanor Ffances Thomhill, and the Stepmother of the said Clara
Clarke Thomhill, and who subsequently to the Death of the said
Thomas Thomhill the Father intermarried with and is now the Wife
of Henry Hungerford Holdich Hungerford, of Dinghy Park in the
County of Northampton, Esquire, and which Jointure Rentc'harge is
secured' by a Term of Years, then and now vested in Mafic Milbank
and William Henry Meyrick Esquires ; but the said Rentcharge was,
upon the said Marriage of the said Honoria Hungerford with the said
Henry Hungerford Holdich Hungerford, assigned to Sir' Francis
Lyttelton Holyoake Goodricke, Henry
Forester,
and Wyndham Berkley
Portman Esquires; and the said Honoria Hungerford was at the Time
of the passing of the said Acts the Guardian of the said Clara Clarke
Thomhill, appointed by a Codicil, bearing Date the Tenth Day of
July One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, to the Will, dated
the Thirteenth Day of November One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine, of her said Father, who died in the Year One thousand
eight hundred and forty-four, arid also appointed or confirmed as
Guardian by the High Court of Chancery, and at the Time aforesaid
a Suit was pending in the High Court of Chancery for administering
the Estate of the said Thomas Thomhill the Grandfather, in which
Suit the said Clara Clarke Thomhill, by Francis Forester Esquire
her next Friend, was
Plaintiff,
and the said Honoria Hungerford, by
her former Name of Thomhill, and another, were Defendants, and
which Suit was known as Thomhill versus Thomhill: And whereas
by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Sixteenth Year of
15 & 16
Vict,
the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to enable the
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Infant Tenants in Tail of the Estates in the County of York, subject to
(Private.) ^ mu 0/Thomas Thomhill, of Fixby in the said County, Esquire,
deceasedy to grant Building and other Leases of Parts of the said
Estates, and to sell or exchange the same, and for other Purposes, the
Short Title of which is " ThornhilVs Estate Act, 1852;" and by
another Act of Parliament made and passed in the Eighteenth' Year of
17 & 18
Vict,
the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for enlarging the
c-5-. Powers contained in Thomhill'^ Estate Act, 1852, and for granting
(Private.)
further
Powers in respect of the Thomhill Estate, the Short Title of
which is " ThomhilVs Estate Act, 1854," Powers were conferred for
granting,
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