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CHAPTER 143
ESTATES TAIL BARRING

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

Short title.
Power of tenant in tail to dispose of lands entailed.

CHAPTER 143

ESTATES TAIL BARRING

An Act relating to entailed estates.

2 of 1862

[Commencement 7th March, 1862]

1. This Act may be cited as the Estates Tail Barring Act.

Short title.

2. Every actual tenant in tail, whether in possession, remainder, contingency or otherwise, shall have the same and the like power to dispose of for an estate in fee simple, absolute, or for any less estate, the lands entailed, as any tenant in tail in England can, under the provisions of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom third and fourth William the Fourth, chapter seventy-four, now dispose of the lands of which he is tenant in tail, as aforesaid:

Power of tenant in tail to dispose of lands entailed.

Provided that instead of the enrolment in chancery, as required by the said statute, every deed by which any disposition is made by a tenant in tail, except as by the said statute excepted, shall be recorded in the Registry of Records, within six months after the execution thereof.

Proviso as to the registration of the deed of disposition.


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