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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 23

Cure of defective disentailing assurance.

23. Where

(a)a person entitled in remainder under a settlement to an estate tail in any
land has made an assurance thereof which fails to bar the issue in tail or the
estates taking effect on the determination of the estate tail or fails to bar
the said estates only; and

(b)any person (other than some person entitled to possession by virtue of the
settlement) is in possession of the land for a period of twelve years from the
commencement of the time at which the assurance, if it had then been executed
by the person entitled to the estate tail, would have operated, without the
consent of any other person, to bar the issue in tail and the said estates;

No right of action to be preserved by formal entry or continual claim.

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