2. No land or rent to be recovered but within twenty years after the right of action accrued to the claimant or some person whose 3. When the right shall be deemed to have accrued; in the case of an estate in possession; on dispossession; on abatement or death; on alienation; in case of future estates; and in case of forfeiture 4. Where advantage of forfeiture is not taken by remainderman, he shall have a new right when his estate comes into possession 170 5. Reversioner to have a new right 6. An administrator to claim as if he obtained the estate without in- terval after the death of intestate 7. In the case of a tenant at will, the right shall be deemed to have 8. No person after a tenancy from year to year to have any right but from the end of the first year or last payment of rent 9. Where rent amounting to 20s. reserved by a lease in writing, shall have been wrongfully received, no right to accrue on the deter- 10. A mere entry not to be deemed possession 11. No right to be preserved by continual claim 12. Possession of one coparcener, joint-tenant, or tenant in common, not to be the possession of the others 13. Possession of a younger brother, &c., not to be the possession of the 14. Acknowledgment in writing given to the person entitled, or his 15. Where possession is not adverse at the time of passing the act, the right shall not be barred until the end of five years afterwards.. 197 16. Persons under disability of infancy, lunacy, coverture, or beyond seas, and their representatives, to be allowed ten years from the 18. No further time to be allowed for a succession of disabilities 19. Scotland, Ireland, and the adjacent islands, not to be deemed be- 20. When the right to an estate in possession is barred, the right of the 21. Where tenant in tail is barred, remaindermen, whom he might have 22. Possession adverse to a tenant in tail shall run on against the re- 23. Where there shall have been possession under an assurance by a tenant in tail, which shall not bar the remainders, they shall be barred at the end of twenty years after the time when the assur- 28. Mortgagor to be barred at the end of twenty years from the time when the mortgagee took possession, or from the last written Mortgagees within the definition in 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27, s. 1, may 29. No lands or rents to be recovered by ecclesiastical or eleemosynary corporation sole, but within two incumbencies and six years or 30. No advowson to be recovered but within three incumbencies or 33. No advowson to be recovered after one hundred years 34. At the end of the period of limitation the right of the party out of 35. Receipt of rent to be deemed receipt of profits 36. Real and mixed actions abolished after 31st December, 1834, except for dower, quare impedit, and ejectment Writ of right of dower and quare impedit abolished as real actions, 39. No descent cast, discontinuance, or warranty to bar a right of entry 246 40. Money charged upon land and legacies to be deemed satisfied at the end of twenty years, if there shall be no interest paid or acknow- This section extended to cases of claims to estates of intestates.. 41. No arrears of dower to be recovered for more than six years 42. No arrears of rent or interest to be recovered for more than six OF LIMITATION OF ACTIONS ON SPECIALTIES OF LIMITATION OF ACTIONS ON SIMPLE CONTRACT PAGE . 277 283 SECT. THE MERCANTILE LAW AMENDMENT ACT, 1856. 1. Persons acquiring title to goods before they have been seized or .. : .. 610 311 ib. 312 9. Limitation of actions for "merchants' accounts" 10. Absence beyond seas or imprisonment of a creditor not to be a disability 11. Period of limitation to run as to joint debtors in the kingdom though some are beyond seas. Judgment recovered against joint debtors in the kingdom to be no bar to proceeding against others beyond seas after their return 12. Definition of "beyond seas," within 4 & 5 Anne, c. 16, and this act ib. 13. Provisions of 9 Geo. 4, c. 14, ss. 1 and 8, and 16 & 17 Vict. c. 113, ss. 24 and 27, extended to acknowledgments by agents 14. Part payment by one contractor, &c. not to prevent bar by certain statutes of limitations in favour of another contractor, &c. 16. Short title of act 17. Extent of act 2. No fine or recovery shall be levied or suffered after 31st December, 1833, except where a writ of dedimus or other writ shall have been previously sued out .. 3. Persons liable, after 31st December, 1833, to levy fines or suffer recoveries under covenants, to effect the purposes intended by means of this act; but in any case where the purpose of a fine or recovery cannot be so effected, the persons liable to levy fines or suffer recoveries shall execute a deed which shall have the same operation as the fine or recovery The Tenure of Ancient Demesne, &c. 4. Fines and recoveries of lands in ancient demesne, when levied or suffered in a superior court, may be reversed as to the lord by writs of deceit, the proceedings in which are now pending, or by writs of deceit hereafter to be brought, but shall be as valid against the parties and persons claiming under them, as if not reversed as to the lord 326 ib. 327 SECT. 5. Fines and recoveries of lands in ancient demesne, when levied or suffered in a manor court, after other fines and recoveries have been previously levied or suffered in a superior court, shall be as valid as they would have been if the tenure had not been changed; and fines and recoveries shall not be invalid in other cases, though levied or suffered in courts whose jurisdictions may not extend to the lands therein comprised, or which may be unlawful, or held without due authority PAGE .. 329 6. The tenure of ancient demesne, where suspended or destroyed by fine or recovery in a superior court, restored in those cases in which the rights of the lord of the manor shall have been recognized within the last twenty years preceding the 1st of January, 1834 .. 330 The Amendment of Fines and Recoveries, and the rendering them Valid in certain Cases. 7. Fines having errors or mistakes in the parcels or parties, apparent from the deeds declaring the uses, shall not require amendment 330 8. Recoveries having errors or mistakes in the parcels or parties apparent from the deeds making the tenants to the writs of entry, shall not require amendment .. .. 9. The jurisdiction of courts to amend fines and recoveries in cases 11. Recoveries invalid in consequence of there not being proper tenants to the writs of entry, made valid in case the persons having the beneficial estates shall have made the tenants to the writs in due time.. 332 ib. ib. 333 12. Certain cases in which fines and recoveries shall not be made valid by this act The Custody of the Records of Fines and Recoveries. 13. The records and proceedings of fines and recoveries in the Courts of Common Pleas at Westminster and Lancaster, and in the Court of Pleas at Durham, shall be kept as the respective courts and justices shall direct, and searches may be made and extracts and copies obtained as heretofore, while in the custody of the present persons, and when kept by other persons then as shall be ordered by the court or justices having control over the same Further provisions made as to fines and recoveries.. 14. Estates tail and estates expectant thereon no longer barrable by warranty 15. After the 31st of December, 1833, every actual tenant in tail in possession, remainder, contingency, or otherwise, shall have full power to dispose of the lands entailed in fee-simple absolute or for any less estate, saving the rights of certain persons .. ib. 16. The power of disposition shall not be exercised by women tenants in tail ex provisione viri, under 11 Hen. 7, c. 20, except with such assent as required by that act 311 SECT. 17. Except as to lands in settlements made before the passing of this act, the 11 Hen. 7, c. 20, repealed PAGE 342 ib. 18. The power of disposition shall not extend to tenants in tail re- .. 20. Act shall not extend to enable issue inheritable to estates tail to Definition of the Protector. 22. Where there shall be under a settlement an estate for years deter- 343 344 349 351 352 24. Where the prior estate of a married woman shall not be settled to 27. No woman in respect of her dower, and (except in the case of a bare trustee under a settlement made before 31st December, 1833) no bare trustee, heir, executor, administrator or assign, as such shall be the protector 28. Where the owner of the prior estate shall by the two last clauses not be the protector, the person who, if such estate did not exist, would be the protector, shall be the protector ib. ib. ib. 353 29. Where in case of the disposition of a life estate on or before the 31st December, 1833, the person to make the tenant to the writ of entry in a recovery shall be the protector 30. Where in the case of a disposition of a reversion in fee, or any estate thereout, on or before the 31st of December, 1833, the person to make the tenant to the writ of entry in a recovery shall be the protector |