Rebuilding of London Act 1670

XXV. Decrees how to be made against Infants.

Infants attaining Age, or dying before, then their Heirs, &c. to execute Leases.

And bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That where the Inheritance or other Estate of or in any of the said Houses or Premisses are or shall be in any Infant or Infants under the age of One and twenty yeares or in any Trustees for them or any of them, It shall be in the Power of the said Justices and Barons or any Three or more of them upon the Petition of the Father, Mother or next of Kinn, or other Friend to such Infant or Infants to order or decree a Lease or Leases against such Infant or Infants and their Trustees for any terme or termes of yeares not exceeding Fifty one yeares in the whole to such Father Mother or other person that shall or will undertake the rebuilding of such Houses at and under such Rent or Rents, and under such Convenants, Conditions and Agreements as they the said Justices and Barons or any three or more of them shall thinke fitt and adjudge; which said Leases and Termes soe decreed shall and may be held and enjoyed accordingly by vertue of this present Act; And that such Infant or Infants upon request after they shall attaine to their respective ages of One and twenty yeares; and in case of the death of such Infant or Infants, his and their Heires Executors or Administrators shall and are hereby required to execute such Leases accordingly; and the respective Tennants the Counterparts thereof.