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LEASING POWERS ACT FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP IN IRELAND 1855 - SECT 4

In cases of disability of parties, guardians, &c. may make leases.

4. In case any person (not being a trustee or feoffee of charitable uses of a
public nature) who would be entitled to make leases under this Act or
otherwise shall happen to be under any of the following disabilities or
incapacities, the power shall be exercised in his or her name and on his or
her behalf in the following manner: If under the age of twenty-one years, by
his or her guardian appointed by will or settlement, or by the Court of
Chancery; and if such person have no guardian, it shall be lawful for the
Court of Chancery in Ireland, on petition in a summary way, to appoint a
guardian of such person under age, for the purpose of executing any lease
under this Act, in the manner aforesaid, and to change him from time to time,
and the power shall be executed by the guardian so appointed: If lunatic or
idiot, or non compos mentis, by the committee of the estate; and if there
shall be no committee of the estate, or no inquisition finding such person
idiot or lunatic it shall be lawful for the Court of Chancery in Ireland by
petition in a summary way, to appoint a guardian of such person, for the
purpose of executing any lease under this Act, and to change such guardian
from time to time, and the power shall be executed as aforesaid by the
guardian so appointed: Provided always, that no lease made under this Act of
the estate of any person under age or of unsound mind or non compos mentis
shall be valid without the consent of the Court of Chancery, to be obtained in
a summary manner by petition of the said Court of Chancery by any party
interested thereon.

The purposes and periods of time for which leases may be made under this Act
shall be as follows:


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