Apportionment Act 1870
1Short title.
2Rents, &c. to accrue from day to day and be apportionable in respect of time.
3Apportioned part of rent, &c. to be payable when the next entire portion shall have become due.
4Persons shall have the same remedies for recovering apportioned parts as for entire portions. Proviso as to rents reserved in certain cases.
5Interpretation of terms.
6Act not to apply to policies of assurance;
7nor where stipulation made to the contrary.

Apportionment Act 1870

1870 Chapter 35

An Act for the better apportionment of rents and other periodical payments.

WHEREAS rents and some other periodical payments are not at common law apportionable (like interest on money lent) in respect of time, and for remedy of some of the mischiefs and inconveniences thereby arising divers statutes have been passed in the eleventh year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second (chapter nineteen), and in the session of Parliament holden in the fourth and fifth years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth (chapter twenty-two), and in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth (chapter seventy-one), and in the session of Parliament held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her present Majesty (chapter twenty-five), and in the session of Parliament held in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her present Majesty (chapter one hundred and fifty-four) :

And Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the remedy of all such mischiefs and inconveniences :

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, as follows :