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Gifts for Churches Act 1811

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His Majesty may vest Lands in any Person for building or repairing any Church or Chapel, or any House for the Residence of a Minister.

That the King's most Excellent Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall have full Power, Licence, and Authority, by Deed or Writing under the Great Seal, or under the Seal of His Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, to give and grant and vest in any Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, and their Heirs and Successors respectively, all such his, her, or their Estate, Interest, or Property in any Lands or Tenements within the Survey .of the Court of Exchequer, or of the Duchy of Lancaster, for or towards the erecting, rebuilding, repairing, purchasing, or providing any Church or Chapel where the Liturgy and Rites of the said United Church are or shall be used or observed, or any Mansion House for the Residence of any Minister of the said United Church-officiating or to officiate in any such Church or Chapel, or of any Outbuildings, Offices, Church Yard or Glebe for the same respectively, and to be for those Purposes applied in and by such Deed as aforesaid expressed, the Consent and Approbation of the Ordinary being first obtained, and such Person and Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, and their Heirs and Successors reflectively, shall have full Capacity and Ability to receive, take, hold, and enjoy for the Purposes aforesaid, any Lands or Tenements not with Handing the Statute of Mortmain, or the [1 Anne. c. 7.] Act of the First Year of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the better Support of Her Majesty s Household, and the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, or any other Act or Acts, or other Impediment or Disability whatsoever:

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