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TITHE RENTCHARGE (IRELAND) ACT 1838 - SECT 9

Where a lease under the laws now in force is free of tithes, the lessee shall not be liable to rent-charge.

9. Where by the laws now in force in Ireland any person shall be entitled to
hold and occupy under any lease or demise the lands thereby demised free from
the payment of tithes or composition of tithes, he shall not be liable to the
payment of the said rent-charge, but the party having in such lands the first
estate of inheritance or other equivalent estate or interest as before
described, expectant or in reversion, and who would not be entitled to a like
exemption under the laws aforesaid, shall be liable to such payment: Provided
always, that in case of the forfeiture, surrender, or other determination of
any estate or interest, the owner whereof may be liable to the payment of such
rent-charge as aforesaid, the party having the first estate of inheritance or
other equivalent estate or intrest as before described, in remainder or in
reversion, shall become liable to the said payment of such rent-charge:
Provided also that in case of any such devolution of interest, no more than
the amount of one year's arrear of rent-charge shall be a charge onthe lands
subject to the payment of such annual rent-charge.


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