Law of Property Amendment Act 1859
1859 c. 35
An Act to further amend the Law of Property, and to relieve Trustees.
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2
Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
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Inheritance
19 Descent how to be traced.
Where there shall be a total failure of heirs of the purchaser, or where any land shall be descendible as if an ancestor had been the purchaser thereof, and there shall be a total failure of the heirs of such ancestor, then and in every such case the land shall descend and the descent shall thenceforth be traced from the person last entitled to the land as if he had been the purchaser thereof.
20 Preceding section incorporated with 3 & 4 Will. 4 c. 106.
The last preceding section shall be read as part of the M1Inheritance Act, 1833.
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Extent of Act
33 Act not to extend to Scotland.
This Act shall not extend to Scotland.
Short title “The Law of Property Amendment Act 1859” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)