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11 GEO. 3, CAP. 20, RENEWAL OF LEASES. 1051 STATUTES Made at WESTMINSTER. Anno Regni GEORGII III. undecimo and A. D. 1771. CAP. XX. An Act to enable Lunatics intitled to renew Leases, their Guardians and Committees, to accept of Surrenders of Old Leases, and grant New Ones. Whereas by the Laws now in Force, Lunatics, or their Guardians or Committees, have not any Power or Authority, upon a Surrender of any Lease of Lands, Tenements, or * Hereditaments, for the Life or Lives of one or more 791 Person or Persons, or for Terms of Years absolute or deter- minable on the Death of one or more Person or Persons, to make a sure or effectual Renewal of such Lease or Leases, which is frequently to the Detriment of such Lunatics and their Families, and always to the Prejudice of the Person or Per- sons intitled to such renewal: Be it therefore enacted by the King'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, That from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, in all Cases where any Lunatic is or shall be intitled, or has Right to renew any Lease or Leases made or granted, or to be made or granted, for the Life or Lives of one or more Person or Per- sons, or for any Term or Number of Years, absolute or de-terminable on the Death of one or more Person or Persons, or otherwise; it shall and may be lawful to and for such Lunatic, or his or her Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Commit- tees, of his Estate, in his, her, or their Name or Names, by the Direction of the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or the Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of Great Britain for the time being, signified by an Order made on hearing all Parties concerned, upon Petition, in a summary Way, from time to time, to accept of a Surrender or Surrenders of such Lease or Leases; and to make and execute |
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