Agricultural drainage : a retrospective of forty years experience / J. Bailey Denton.
- John Bailey Denton
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Agricultural drainage : a retrospective of forty years experience / J. Bailey Denton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Power for tenant for life to enter into contracts. (iv.) Contracts. (i.) A tenant for life— (i.) May contract to make any sale, exchange, partition, mortgage, or charge; and (ii.) May vary or rescind, with or without consideration, the con- tract, in the like cases and manner in which, if he were absolute owner of the settled land, he might lawfully vary or rescind the same, but so that the contract as varied be in conformity with this Act; and any such consideration, if paid in money, shall be capital money arising under this Act; and (iii.) May contract to make any lease ; and in making the lease may vary the terms, with or without consideration, but so that the lease be in conformity with this Act; and May accept a surrender of a contract for a lease, in like manner and on the like terms in and on which he might accept a surrender of a lease; and thereupon may make a new or other contract, or new or other contracts, for or relative to a lease or leases, in like manner and on the like terms in and on which he might make a new or other lease, or new or other leases, where a lease had been granted ; and (v.) May enter into a contract for or relating to the execution of any improvement authorised by this Act, and may vary or rescind the same ; and May, in any other case, enter into a contract to do any act for carrying into effect any of the purposes of this Act, and may vary or rescind the same. (2.) Every contract shall be binding on and shall enure for the benefit of the settled land, and shall be enforceable against and by every successor in tide for the time being of the tenant for life, and may be carried into effect by any such successor; but so that it may be varied or rescinded by any such successor, in the like case and manner, if any, as if it had been made by himself (3.) The Court may, on the application of the tenant for life, or of any such successor, or of any person interested in any contract, give directions respecting the enforcing, carrying into effect, varying, or rescinding thereof. (4.) Any preliminary contract under this Act for or relating to a lease shall not form part of the title or evidence of the title of any person to the lease, or to the benefit thereof (vi.) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883. General right of tenant to compensation. l^From the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883.] Improvements. Compe7isation for Improvetnents. Subject as in this Act mentioned, where a tenant has made on his holding any improvement comprised in the First Schedule hereto, he shall, on and after the commencement of this Act, be entitled on quittmg his holding at the determination of a tenancy to obtain from the land-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21782568_0090.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
