Heywood & Massey's lunacy practice / by N. Arthur Heywood, Arnold S. Massey and Ralph C. Romer.

  • Heywood, N. Arthur (Nathaniel Arthur)
Date:
1907
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Credit: Heywood & Massey's lunacy practice / by N. Arthur Heywood, Arnold S. Massey and Ralph C. Romer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    A Bill was introckiced. into and passed its third reading in the iroiiso of Lords last year under the title of the Settled Land Bill, 1906. One of the provisions of that Bill was as follows: — 7.—(1) Any receiver appointed under the Lunacy Act, 1890, may be authorised in any application under that Act to exercise in the name and on behalf of any person described in sub-section (1) of section one hundred and sixteen of that Act, not being a lunatic so found by inquisition, who is a tenant for life, or person having the powers of a tenant for life under the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890, and this Act, the powers of a tenant for life under the said Acts, in like manner and with the same results as a committee of the estate of a lunatic so found might under section sixty-two of the Settled Land Act, 1882, have been authorised to exercise the said powers. (2) This section applies to receivers appointed before as well as after the commencement of this Act. This clause would supplement sect. 62 of the Settled Land Act, 1882, and would remove the defects of the jurisdiction in lunacy disclosed in Re Baggs, [1894] 2 Ch. 416, and in Re S.S.B., [1906] 1 Ch. 712, thus constituting an obvious improvement in the eyes of the conveyancer. It is understood that efforts are this year being made to get the Government to take up this Bill. N. ARTHUR HEYWOOD, ARNOLD S. MASSEY, Solicitors. 10, Norfolk Street, Strand. RALPH C. ROMER. EoYAL Courts of Justice. March, 1907.