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TITHE RENTCHARGE (IRELAND) ACT 1838

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Compositions for tithes abolished.
   7.      All lands subject to the payment of tithe compositions shall be
           charged with an annual sum by way of rent-charge equal to three
           fourths of such compositions, to be payable by the party having the
           first estate of inheritance, &c. in such lands, &c.
   8.      What shall be deemed equivalent to a perpetual estate.
   9.      Where a lease under the laws now in force is free of tithes, the
           lessee shall not be liable to rent-charge.
   10.     If any person who would have been liable to tithe composition hold
           mediately or immediately under the person liable to such rent-charge,
           the amount of such rent-charge may be recovered as rent from the
           next tenant, and so downwards to the person primarily liable.
   11.     Such leases, &c. of tithes as have now the effect of suspending
           compositions shall determine, and none other.
   12.     Where leases at rack rent have been made, after the establishment
           of any composition in pursuance of the recited Act, the rents shall
           be reduced in proportion to the difference between such composition
           and the rent-charge payable under this Act.
   16.     Proceedings where the liability of lands to rent-charge shall be
           disputed.
   17.     When tithe-free lands have been subjected to composition the
           rent-charge shall be reduced.
   18.     Periods necessary to establish prescriptions and claims of any modus
           decimandi or exemption from tithes.
   19.     Modus or exemption must be proved to have existed within one year
           before composition.
   20.     To what cases the herein-before contained provisions as to modus or
           exemption shall not extend.
   21.     Time during which lands have been held by persons entitled to the
           tithes thereof, to be excluded in the computation; as also the time
           during which any person capable of resisting any claim has been an
           infant, &c.
   22.     What it shall be sufficient to allege in proceedings relating to
           the exemption of lands from tithes under this Act, &c.
   23.     No presumption in support of a claim from exercise of right for a
           less period than herein mentioned.
   24.     Rent-charges to whom payable.
   26.     Certificates of compositions not to be evidence of the right of
           persons therein described.
   27.     Section 27
   28.     Several parties may be included in one bill in equity.
   30.     Where rent-charge is in arrear, and the person liable thereto is
           not in occuption of the lands charged therewith, or where such
           person is not known, the Court of Chancery may order the rents of
           such lands to be received in liquidation of such rent-charge, &c.
   49.     Tithe composition Acts shall be taken to extend to Her Majesty, &c.
   50.     The provisions of this Act shall extend to compositions for tithes
           belonging to Her Majesty.
   51.     1833 c.100
   52.     Notices how to be served.
   54.     Interpretation of words used in this Act.
   3.      Composition of tithes to be made and rent-charges substituted.
   5.      Interpretation of certain words in this Act, and in 1838 c.109.


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