44 Commissioners empowered to purchase lands, &c. for the purposes of the hospital. U.K.
It shall and may be lawful for the lords and others, commissioners of the said hospital at Chelsea for the time being, for the purposes of for the advantage of the said royal hospital, or for the improvement of the building or neighbourhood of the said hospital, or for any purposes connected with the said royal hospital, and they are hereby empowered, to treat, contract, and agree for the absolute purchase, and to complete purchases already agreed to be made, of any messuages, land, tenements, or hereditaments, and the freehold and inheritance thereof, or any estate or interest therein, with any body or bodies politic, corporate, or collegiate, or any tenant or tenants for life, or fee tail general or special, or for any terms or terms of years absolute or determinable on any life or lives, or with any feoffees in trust, executors, administrators, husbands, guardians, committees for lunatices and idiots, or other trustees whomsoever, not only for and on behalf of themselves, their heirs and successors, but also for and on behalf of their cestuique trust respectively, whether infants or issue unborn, lunatics, idiots, femes covert, or other person or persons whomsoever, who shall be willing to sell the name; and upon payment of the purchase money for the same respectively to the parties or persons respectively entitled thereto, or upon payment thereof [F1into the Supreme Court], in manner by this Act directed (as the case may be), the messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments so to be purchased as aforesaid shall vest absolutetly in the said lords and others, commissioners and governors for the time being, or in such person or persons as they shall in sny such contract nominate to be their trustee or trustees for that purpose, to and for the purposes of the said institution, or for the health and comfort of the pensioners maintained therein, and from thenceforth all other parties and persons whomsoever shall be divested of all right and title, claim or reservation, of, in, or to such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and any term, right and interest therein so purchased, without incurruring or being subject or liable to any penalties or forfeitures of [F2the statutes of mortmain, or] any [F2other] law or statute whatsoever; in case of a re-sale of the said lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any of them, under the provision, herein-after in that behalf contained, to purchase and hold other lands, tenements, or hereditaments in like manner.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1965 (c. 2), s. 18 Sch. 1
F2Words repealed (E.W.) (S.) by Charities Act 1960 (c. 58), s. 49(2)(b), Sch. 7 Pt. II
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 44 excluded as to persons within the jurisdiction of the judge by Mental Health Act 1959 (c. 72), s. 121, Sch. 5
C2Ss. 44, 45 excluded by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 113, Sch. 3