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LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 1

Construction of certain terms in this Act.

1. In the construction of this Act (except where the context or other
provisions of this Act require a different construction),

The word "land" shall include and extend to manors, advowsons, rectories,
messuages, tithes, lands, tenements, rents, annuities charged on lands, and
hereditaments of any tenure, or any estate therein, partial, derivative, or
otherwise, and whether such land be held as freehold or chattel, or held by
lease, or whether subject to any fee-farm or other perpetual rent, with or
without the condition of re-entry for securing the same or otherwise, or
whether corporeal or incorporeal, and whether a divided or undivided share;

And the word "estate" shall include and extend to an estate in equity as well
as at law, and to an equity of redemption, and to the benefit of any covenant
or contract for or right of renewal and whether this land be held in fee
simple or for any lesser estate, or held by lease;

And the word "lease" shall include an agreement for a lease, and the estate or
interest created or agreed to be created by such lease or agreement in the
whole or in any part of the land therein comprised;

And the expression "lease in perpetuity" shall mean any lease or grant for one
or more life or lives, with or without a term of years, or determinable upon
the expiration of any given term of years, or for years determinable on one or
more life or lives, or for years absolute, with a covenant or agreement in any
of such cases, whether in the same or any other instrument, for the perpetual
renewal of such lease or grant, whether such lease shall be derived out of the
inheritance or by way of under-lease out of any other lease or estate;

The word "owner," as applied to land, shall include any person beneficially
entitled in possession to an estate in fee simple or fee tail, ..., or for any
lesser, partial, or derivative or other estate, freehold or chattel, at law or
in equity, or any person entitled to such estate as a trustee for sale;

And the words "person or owner" shall extend to a body politic or corporate,
as well as to an individual;

And the word "judge" shall mean one of the judges of the "Landed Estates
Court, Ireland";

And the expression "the judge" shall mean the judge of the said Court before
whom the matter shall be pending of which the section is conversant;

Definition rep. by SLR 1892

And the word "incumbrance" shall mean any legal or equitable mortgage in fee,
or for any less estate, and also any money secured by a trust, and also any
legacy, portion, lien, or other charge, whereby a gross sum of money is
secured to be paid on an event, or at a time certain, and also any annual or
periodical charge, which by the instrument creating the same or any other
instrument, is made purchaseable on payment of a gross sum of money, and every
other charge upon land which is deemed an incumbrance in a court of equity,
and which a court of equity would discharge by a sale of the land charged, or
by the appointment of a receiver over the same:

And the word "incumbrancer" shall mean a person entitled to an incumbrance
absolutely, or a person entitled to the absolute or any partial or lesser
interest in an incumbrance, or in any part thereof;

And the word "Court" shall mean the "Landed Estates Court, Ireland"; and where
the expression "the Court" shall be used in connexion with any act to be done
or order to be made by the same, it shall mean the judge of the said Court
before whom the matter referred to shall be pending.

Definition rep. by SLR 1953

Ss.230 rep. by SLR 1875; SLR 1892; SLR 1893; SLR 1953; SLR 1963


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