Rebuilding of London Act 1670

XXXII. Recital that by reason of making certain Streets divers Slips of Ground are rendered useless.

Justices and Barons to determine Controversies respecting the same.; Jury to be impannelled.; Orders made therein to bind; and Parties may hold and enjoy accordingly.

And whereas by reason of inlargeing several Streets, and of makeing the new Streets called Kings streete leading from Guild hall into Cheapeside and Queene streete leading from Soaper lane to the River of Thames there are diverse slipps and small parcells of ground remaineing altogether uselesse to the Owners thereof in reguard the same are not capeable of any house being built thereupon It is therefore hereby further provided and enacted That for the makeing the said Streets and Buildings conformable, and for the better determining of all Controversies concerning the same that the said Justices and Barons or any Three or more of them be and are hereby authorized and impowered to heare and determine all Controversies and Differences ariseing by reason or occasion thereof in like manner as they can or may heare or determine any other Matter or Cause referred to their Judgement by vertue of this or the aforesaid Act for erecting the said Judicature and may make such Orders and Decrees either for [X1 the] transferring the propriety of such parcells of Ground left next the said Streets to the Owners of the backeward Ground, or by transferring the propriety of a proportion of the backeward Ground to the Owners of any the said small parcells of Ground, or by annexing it to the next adjoyning and contiguous Ground in order to the regular building thereupon; And for all such parcells of Ground the propriety whereof shall be soe transferred by such Order or Decree of the said Justices and Barons or any Three or more of them as aforesaid and for all Charges and Damages concerning the same such Recompence and Satisfaction shall be given by the Builders to the respective Proprietors and others interessed therein as shall be awarded by a Jury for that purpose to be impannelled by the Lord Maior and Court of [X2 Alderman] in like manner as by the aforesaid Act for rebuilding the said City of London is appointed in case of satisfaction to be given for grounds taken and imployed for the uses in that Act mentioned in case the partyes concerned will not, or by reason of Infancy or other impediment cannot come to agreement touching the same; Which Orders and Decrees in that behalfe to be made shall binde all partyes therein concerned, their Heires, Executors, Administrators, Successors and Assignes and shall be of like effect as other Decrees made by the said Justices and Barons or any Three or more of them by vertue of this or the aforesaid Act, to the intent that the Building thereupon may extend to the said Streets, in a right line with other Houses there built, and the Owners and others interessed of and in the said adjacent and contiguous Grounds paying to the Owners and others interessed, of and in the said small slipps and parcells of Ground such satisfaction as shall be ordered and awarded by the said Justices and Barons or any Three or more of them upon heareing of the partyes concerned (who are hereby authorized and impowered to heare and determine the same, and therein to make such Orders and Decrees as in other Causes referred to their Judgement and Determination by this or the aforesaid Act) shall and may for ever holde and enjoy the same by vertue of this present Act.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Aldermen O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]