Entail Amendment Act 1848

XXIX Provisions to Wives and Children may be granted out of Money vested in trust for the Purchase of Lands to be entailed.

And be it enacted, That where any Money or other Property, Real or Personal, has prior to the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight been invested in trust for the Purpose of purchasing Land to be entailed, or where any Land has prior to the said Date been directed to be entailed, but the Direction has not been carried into effect, it shall be lawful for the Party who, if the Land had been entailed in Terms of the Trust, would be the Heir in possession of the entailed Land for the Time, to grant Provisions in favour of his or her Husband or Wife and younger Children out of such Money or other Property, or out of such Land, as the Case may be, of such and the like Amount and Extent as he or she would have been entitled to grant out of the Land if entailed and if subject to the Provisions and Enactments of the said recited Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth.