1987 Ed.]
Prescription Act 1832
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such public purpose, or of any person on behalf thereof, to direct any master or other officer of the said courts respectively to cause two successive advertisements to be inserted in the London Gazette, and in one or more of the newspapers circulated in the county, city, or place where such land, hereditaments, or real property, or the lands or hereditaments out of which such rent-charge is issuing, shall be situated, giving notice that the representative or representatives of the person of the last survivor of the persons in whom any land, hereditaments, rent-charge, or other real property may have been vested in trust as aforesaid, do within twenty-eight days appear or give notice of his or their title to such master or other officer, and prove his or their pedigree or other title as trustees; and if no person shall appear to give such notice within such twenty-eight days, or the person or persons who may appear or give such notice shall not within thirty-one days after such appearance or notice prove his or their title to the satisfaction of such master or other officer, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the said courts respectively to appoint any new trustees for such charity or charitable or public purpose, in case no trustees for such charity or purpose duly appointed shall then be existing; and such land, hereditaments, rent-charge or other real property may be conveyed to such new trustees when so appointed by the said courts respectively, or to the existing trustees previously duly appointed, as the case may be, by any person whom the said courts respectively may direct for that purpose by virtue of the provisions in this Act, without the necessity of any decree.
THE PRESCRIPTION ACT 1832
(2 & 3 Will. 4 c. 71)
[Extracted from Halsbury's Statutes of England (2nd edition), Vol. 6, p. 669]
An Act for shortening the Time of Prescription in certain cases.
[1st August, 1832.]
Whereas the expression "time immemorial, or time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," is now by the Law of England in many cases considered to include and denote the whole period of time from the reign of King Richard the First, whereby the title to matters that have been long enjoyed is sometimes defeated by shewing the commencement of such enjoyment, which is in many cases productive of inconvenience and injustice.
[1] Claims to right of common and other profits à prendre, (except tithes, etc.), not to be defeated after thirty years enjoyment by
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1987 Ed.]
Prescription Act 1832
[App. IIA
such public purpose, or of any person on behalf thereof, to direct any master or other officer of the said courts respectively to cause two successive advertisements to be inserted in the London Gazette, and in one or more of the newspapers circulated in the county, city, or place where such land, hereditaments, or real property, or the lands or hereditaments out of which such rent-charge is issuing, shall be situated, giving notice that the representative or representatives of the person of the last survivor of the persons in whom any land, hereditaments, rent-charge, or other real property may have been vested in trust as aforesaid, do within twenty-eight days appear or give notice of his or their title to such master or other officer, and prove his or their pedigree or other title as trustees; and if no person shall appear to give such notice within such twenty-eight days, or the person or persons who may appear or give such notice shall not within thirty-one days after such appearance or notice prove his or their title to the satisfaction of such master or other officer, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the said courts respectively to appoint any new trustees for such charity or charitable or public purpose, in case no trustees for such charity or purpose duly appointed shall then be existing; and such land, hereditaments, rent-charge or other real property may be conveyed to such new trustees when so appointed by the said courts respectively, or to the existing trustees previously duly appointed, as the case may be, by any person whom the said courts respectively may direct for that purpose by virtue of the provisions in this Act, without the necessity of any decree.
THE PRESCRIPTION ACT 1832
(2 & 3 Will. 4 c. 71)
[Extracted from Halsbury's Statutes of England (2nd edition), Vol. 6, p. 669]
An Act for shortening the Time of Prescription in certain cases.
[1st August, 1832.]
Whereas the expression "time immemorial, or time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," is now by the Law of England in many cases considered to include and denote the whole period of time from the reign of King Richard the First, whereby the title to matters that have been long enjoyed is sometimes defeated by shewing the commencement of such enjoyment, which is in many cases productive of inconvenience and injustice.
[1] Claims to right of common and other profits a prendre, (except tithes, etc.), not to be defeated after thirty years enjoyment by
45
Item 59
Item 60
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