the office and describe the interest and power of the protector of a settlement, and direct the modes of his concurrence, and which are noticed on a former page, 123, 124. Sections 50 to

54 (inclusive) relate to copyhold; and the provisions for barring estates tail and remainders and enlarging base fees in freehold lands, are made to apply to copyhold, with this difference, that the process is to be effected, as to legal estates, by surrender in the Lord's Court, and, as to equitable estates, either by surrender or deed, vide supra. 126. Upon the construction of sections 33 and 48, see 3 Myl. & K. 245. 247. 249. 250.

Sections 55 to 69 relate to Bankrupts and apply also to lands in Ireland. By the first of these clauses the present Bankrupt act, so far as relates to estates tail, is repealed, and by the subsequent clauses the Commissioners of bankrupt are empowered (by deed to be enrolled in Chancery within six months after its execution) to bar estates tail and remainders, and create base fees; and also to enlarge base fees in freehold and copyhold lands, and to dispose of them to purchasers for the benefit of the creditors: these sections also contain provisions respecting the consent of protectors of estates tail and base fees vested in bankrupts, vide supra, p. 125.

Section 70 repeals the stat. 7 Geo. 4. c. 45., and sections 71 & 72 relate to money to be laid out in lands to be entailed, vide supra, 128. and 465-467. Sections 73 to 76 (inclusive) relate to the enrolment of deeds. In reference to sect. 71. see 3 Rus. & Myl. 249.

The fourth set of enactments, sections 77 to 90 (inclusive), relate to conveyances by married women, and comprise provisions for their separate examination, and the acknowledgement of the deeds in which they concur. In reference to sections 81. 82.83. See 3 Bing. N. S. 304. to section 84. See 1 Bing. N. S. 265.

Sect. 91. empowers the Court of Common Pleas to dispense with the concurrence of the husband where he is lunatic, or otherwise incapable of executing the deed, or where his

For remedying

acts.

residence is not known, or he is in prison living separate from his wife, transported, &c.

3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 87. (28th August, 1833) an act for remedefects of title in lands allotted dying a defect in titles to lands, &c. allotted, sold, divided, or under inclosure exchanged under acts of inclosure, in consequence of the award not having been enrolled, or not having been enrolled within the time limited by the several acts; and for authorizing the appointment of new commissioners in certain cases, where the same shall have been omitted. The statute (s. 1.) renders all awards already made, but not enrolled, from the execution thereof, as valid as if enrolled within the time limited by the

Real estate

made assets for simple and con

tract debts.

Dower.

Inheritance.

Apportionment

of rents, &c.

Escheat and forfeiture.

act.

3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 104. (29th August, 1833) renders freehold and copyhold estates in all cases assets for the payment of simple, contract, or specialty debts.

3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 105. (29th August, 1833) an act for the amendment of the law relating to dower. Its provisions are fully noticed in the chapter of Dower, supra, p. 81.

3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 106. (29th August, 1833) an act for the amendment of the law of inheritance. The provisions of this act are fully noticed in the chapter on the law of inheritance, supra, p. 423.

4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 22. (16th June, 1834) an act to amend the statute 11 Geo. 2. c. 19. respecting the apportionment of rents, annuities, and other periodical payments. It is noticed, supra, p. 274.

4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 23. (27th June, 1834) this statute amends the law relating to the escheat and forfeiture of real and personal estate held in trust. Where a trustee or mortgagee dies

without heir, the Court of Chancery, by s. 2., is empowered to appoint a person to convey in the manner provided by the 11 Geo. 4, and 1 Will. 4. c. 60. Section 3 enacts, that real or personal estate vested in a trustee or mortgagee shall not escheat, or be forfeited by reason of the attainder of such trustee or mortgagee.

lands in common

4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 30. (25th July, 1834) an act to facilitate Exchange of the exchange of lands lying in common fields.

fields.

Abolition of fines and recoveries in Ire

4 & 5 Will. 4 c. 92. (15th August, 1834). This act for the abolition of fines and recoveries in Ireland, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, is, with the land. omission of some clauses, inapplicable to lands in Ireland, and with a very few exceptions, a copy of the statute 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 74. and is noticed on a former page, 129.

5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 69. (9th September, 1835.) An act for facilitating the conveyance of workhouses and other property of parishes and of incorporations or unions of parishes. The act (s. 2.) gives power to the overseers and guardians of the poor to sell, exchange, let, or otherwise dispose of any parish lands and property, and to apply the money in the purchase building, or providing of a workhouse or otherwise, for the permanent advantage of the parish as the poor law commissioners may approve.

6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 20. (21st June, 1836.) An act imposing certain restrictions on the renewal of leases by ecclesiastical persons.

Conveyance of

Workhouses

and other parish property.

Renewal of

leases by Ecclesiastical per

sons.

6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 64. (13th August, 1836.) Explaining Explaining the last statute.

last statute.

6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 71. (13th August, 1836.) An act for the Commutation of

tithes.

Registry of births, deaths,

&c.

Explaining last statute.

Amendment of law of wills.

Amendment of 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 27.

Amendment of 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 71.

commutation of tithes in England and Wales, amended by

the 7th Will. and 1 Vict. c. 69.

6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 86. (17th August, 1836.) An act for the registering of births, deaths, and marriages in England.

7 Will. and 1 Vict. c. 22. (30th June, 1837.) An act explaining the preceding act of registry.

7 Will. and 1 Vict. c. 26. (3rd July, 1837.) An act for the amendment of the laws respecting wills: this act is discussed in the chapter on Devise, supra, 348-368. see also pp. 261. 262.

7 Will. and 1 Vict. c. 28. (3rd July, 1837.) An act to amend the 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 27. enacting that mortgages shall be within the definition of "land" in the amended act, and that mortgagees, or those claiming under them may recover land in mortgage to them within twenty years after the last payment of principal or interest.

7 Will. 4. and 1 Vict. c. 69. (15th July, 1837.) An act for the amendment of the above act of 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 71. for the commutation of tithes in England and Wales.