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Infants' Property Act 1830 (Imp) (WA)

An Act to enable Lords of Manors more easily to recover their Fines, and to exempt Infants and Femes Covert from Forfeitures of their Copyhold Estates in Particular Cases: 5 And whereas an Act was passed in the twenty‑ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act to enable Infants, Lunatics, and Femes Covert to surrender Leases, in order to renew the same: 6 And whereas an Act was passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to enable Lunatics entitled to renew Leases, their Guardians and Committees, to accept of Surrenders of Old Leases, and grant new ones: 7 And whereas an Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the eleventh year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act to enable Guardians and others to renew Leases for Lives: 8 And whereas an Act was passed in the forty‑third year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to authorise the Sale or Mortgage of the Estates of Persons found Lunatic by Inquisition in England or Ireland respectively, and the granting of Leases of the same: 9 And whereas an Act was passed in the forty‑seventh year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled, An Act concerning Common Recoveries suffered in Copyhold or Customary Courts by Attorney: 10 And whereas an Act was passed in the fifty‑ninth year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act concerning Common Recoveries to be suffered by Attorney in Courts of Ancient Demesne, and to explain an Act of His present Majesty relative to the Sale or Mortgaging of Estates of Lunatics: 11 And whereas an Act was passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Conveyances and Transfers of Estates and Funds vested in Trustees who are Infants, Idiots, Lunatics, or Trustees of Unsound Mind, or who cannot be compelled or refuse to act; and also the Laws relating, to Stocks and Securities belonging to Infants, Idiots, Lunatics, and Persons of Unsound Mind: 12 And whereas an Act was passed in the ninth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, intituled An Act for extending the Acts passed in the Forty‑third and Fifty‑ninth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for the Sale and Mortgage of Estates of Persons found Lunatics by Inquisition taken in England and Ireland, so as to authorise such Sale and Mortgage for other Purposes; and for rendering Inquisitions or Commissions of Lunacy taken in England available in Ireland, and like Inquisitions taken in Ireland available in England: 13 And whereas it is expedient the provisions of the said Acts should be consolidated and amended; Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, [1.