Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals Act 1826

45 Bodies politic, trustees, &c. to the commissioners. U.K.

It shall and may be lawful to and for all bodies politic, corporate, or collegiate, corporations aggregate or sole, tenants for life, or in fee tail general or special, or foe any term or terms of years absolute or determinable on any life or lives, and for all feoffees in trust, executors, administrators, husbands, guardians, committees for lunatics and idiots, and other trustees whomsoever, not only for and on behalf of their cestuique trust respectively, whether infants or issue unborn, lunatics, idiots, of femes covert or other person or persons under any disability of acting for himself, herself, and themselves, and also to and for all femes covert who are or shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any part thereof, which shall be thought fit or expedient to be purchased by the said lords and others, commissioners for the time being of the said hospital, for the use or benefit of the said institution, or for the health or comfort of the pensioners maintained therein, to treat, contract, and agree with the said lords and others, commissioners of the said hospital, or any person or persons appointed by them and on their behalf, for the absolute sale of the same hereditaments to them, and also to convey by indenture of bargain and sale the hereditaments to be contracted or agreed to be purchased, and the inheritance thereof in fee simple, unto and to the use of the said lords and others, commissioners of the said hospital at Chelsea for the time being, or to a trustee or trustees appointed by them on their behaf ; and which the said bargain and sale shall, without any fine or fines, recovery or recoveries, or other conveyances or assurances in the law whatsoever, and without inrolment, be good, valid, and effectual to all intents and purposes, not only to convey the estate and interest of the person and persons and bodies conveying, but also to convey all right, estate, interest, use, property, possibility, claim, and demand whatsoever of their said several cestuique trust, and of all persons whomsoever claiming or to claim by, from, or under him, her, or them, or under any other persons whomsoever, or claiming or to claim in remainder or reversion expectant on any particular estate, or by way of executory devise, or springing use, or otherwise howsoever, and the same shall be deemed and considered to bar the dower and dowers of any such person or persons, and all estates tail and other estates, possessions, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, and the issue and issues of any person or persons claiming under them, as effectually as fines or common recoveries, or any other conveyance or assurance would do, if levied or suffered or executed by the proper parties indue form of law ; any law, statute, or usage, or any other matter or thing whatsoever, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and all bodies corporate or collegiate, corporations aggregate or sole, and all tenants for life, or in fee tail general or special, or for any term or terms of years absolute or determinable on any life or lives, and all feoffees in trust, executirs, administrators, husbands, guardians, committees, trustees, and all and every other person and persons, is and are and shall be indemnified for what he, she, or they shall do by virtue and in pursuance of this Act.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 45 excluded as to persons within the jurisdiction of the judge by Mental Health Act 1959 (c. 72), s. 121, Sch. 5

C2 Ss. 44, 45 excluded by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 113, Sch. 3