Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1800 (repealed 19.11.1998)

Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1800

1800 CHAPTER 41 39 and 40 Geo 3

An Act for explaining and amending several Acts made in the Thirty-second Year of King Henry the Eighth, and the First, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, so far as respects Leases granted by Archbishops, Bishops, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, Deans and Chapters of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, Masters and Guardians of Hospitals, and others having any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Living or Promotion.

[16 May 1800]

X1 Preamble.

Whereas doubts have arisen whether archbishops, bishops, masters and fellows of colleges, deans and chapters of cathedral and collegiate churches, masters and guardians of hospitals, and others having any spiritual or ecclesiastical living or promotion, who are by several Acts passed in the reigns of their late Majesties King Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth restrained from granting any leases of their estates whereon the accustomed yearly rent is not reserved, can lawfully grant separate leases of parts of lands or tenements which have been usually demised by one lease and under one rent, reserving on the several parts so demised less than the rent anciently reserved on the demise of the whole, though the aggregate amount of the rents so reserved on such separate demises should be equal to or exceed the amount of the annual accustomed rent for the whole: And whereas many such separate leases have been granted, and great inconvenience may arise to persons claiming under such leases, if such leases should not be deemed valid and effectual in case the amount of the rent anciently reserved on demises of the whole shall appear to have been reserved on the separate demises of the different parts; and the power of dividing tenements anciently so demised in one parcel at one rent may in many cases tend to improve the value of the estates belonging to such eccelesiastical persons and bodies respectively, as well as to the benefit of their lessees and the publick:

Editorial Information

X1 Act repealed (1.4.1978) as to incumbents by Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 (No 4), Sch. 7

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C2 Act excluded by Cathedrals Measure 1963 (No. 2), s. 53, Sch. 1