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Inclosure Act 1845

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Inclosure Act 1845

1845 CHAPTER 118

An Act to facilitate the Inclosure and Improvement of Commons and Lands held in common, the Exchange of Lands, and the Division of intermixed Lands ; to provide Remedies for defective or incomplete Executions, and for the Non-execution of the Powers of general and local Inclosure Acts ; and to provide for the Revival of such Powers in certain Cases.

[8th August 1845]

WHEREAS it is expedient to facilitate the Inclosure and Improvement of Commons and other Lands now subject to Rights of Property which obstruct Cultivation and the productive Employment of Labour, and to facilitate such Exchanges of Lands, and such Divisions of Lands intermixed or divided into inconvenient Parcels, as may be beneficial to the respective Owners, and it is also expedient to provide Remedies for the defective or incomplete Execution and for the Non-execution of Powers created by general and local Acts of Inclosure, and to authorize the Revival of such Powers in certain Cases:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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,

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