No. 13. AGREEMENT WITH TWELVE OR MORE [Parties who find it convenient to execute an agreement as a foundation for such a schedule of apportionment as is given in No. 12, may if they please use the following form.] Manor of County of } MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made the day of between A. B., of, &c. lord of the said manor, of the first part; C. D., of, &c. a tenant of the said manor, of the second part; E. F., of &c. another tenant of the said manor, of the third part, &c. [according to the number of the said tenants]. WITNESS, that in pursuance of the powers and authorities for that purpose given in and by an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act for the Commutation of Certain Manorial Rights in respect of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure, and in respect of other Lands subject to such Rights, and for facilitating the Enfranchisement of such Lands, and for the Improvement of such Tenure," the said parties above-named lord and tenants of the said manor to the number of [or being all the tenants of the said manor] do hereby contract and agree for the enfranchisement of the lands described in the schedule hereunder written, and that they will effect such enfranchisement by a schedule of apportionment to be hereafter prepared. As witness the hands of the said parties, the day and year first above written. THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO, This should contain the following information in columns : 2 DECLARATION BY STEWARD AS TO VALUE AND INCIDENTS. A SCHEDULE of the several Particulars required by the Copyhold Commissioners, with respect to certain Copyhold or Customary Lands, proposed to be Commuted (or Enfranchised). Residences. Descriptions. Ages. than one Tenant, whether admitted as Joint Tenants, or how other wise. Whether received Changes in Tenants for each subject of the 3 to Heriots, and how. last Heriots for each Tenement. Whether subject to Rights Peculiar in Timber, Customs. and what. where Fines payable on Death or Alienation. Remarks. I declare the above to be a true and correct statement, according to my judgment and belief, of the several matters and things above-mentioned. Dated, &c. (Signed) A. B., Steward of the said Manor. DECLARATION BY VALUER AS TO VALUE OF LANDS. A SCHEDULE by the undersigned Valuer, as required by the Copyhold Commissioners, with respect to certain Copyhold or Customary Lands, proposed to be Commuted (or Enfranchised). I declare the above to be, according to the best of my skill and judgment, the true annual value of the above-named copyhold and customary lands, holden of the above manor. Dated, &c. (Signed) A. B., Valuer. I, A. B. of, &c. lord [or copyholder, customary tenant, or freeholder, as the case may be] of the said manor, do hereby appoint C. D. of, &c., to be my lawful attorney, to act for me in all respects as if I myself were present and acting in the execution of an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act for the Commutation of Certain Manorial Rights in respect of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure, and in respect of other Lands subject to such Rights, and for facilitating the Enfranchisement of such Lands, and for the Improvement of such Tenure." (a) See this form, p. 58, and note (a), p. 59, where it was suggested the word fifth ought to be inserted, instead of fourth. If both years are mentioned, it is more correct to put, "passed in the session holden in the fourth and fifth years of the reign, &c." See the King v. Biers, (3 Neville and Manning, p. 475). INDEX. ABATEMENT, no action or proceedings under the Act to abate by ABROAD, Lord, or tenant, or other person interested being, who to be sub- ACCOUNTS, of rent and produce of lands, and of receipts and pay- ACT, To extend to England, Wales, and Ireland, 136 No right to rents, fines, or heriots, or other manorial rights, to Operation of, limited to five years, 53 Not to affect the custom of gavelkind in the county of Kent, 125 Not to extend to Crown lands or duchy of Lancaster unless In certain cases not to come into operation till 1st January, 1842, May be repealed or altered, 136 ACTIONS, Not to abate by deaths of parties, 93 Where party interested under disability, 94 Costs of, in discretion of court, 93, 94 Limitation of, against commissioners, assistant commissioners, Expenses incurred under the Act may be recovered by, in what ADJOURNMENT, Of manorial meetings, 66 Of hearings to determine objections to apportionments, valua- |