Ecclesiastical Corporations Act 1832

1832 CHAPTER 80

An Act to authorize the identifying of Lands and other Possessions of certain Ecclesiastical and Collegiate Corporations.

[3d August 1832]

WHEREAS the Archbishops and Bishops, of the several Dioceses, and the Deans, and Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, Prebendaries, and Canons, and other Dignitaries and Officers of the several Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chapels, and the Masters or other Heads, and Fellows and Scholars or other Societies of the several Colleges and Halls in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and of the Colleges of Winchester and Eton, are Proprietors of divers,, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Tithes, and Hereditaments, and in many Cases the Boundaries or Quantities and the Identity of Lands within such Manors, and of such Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and of Lands subject to any such Tithes, or some Part or 'Parts thereof; are unknown or disputed, and it would be a great Benefit, as well to such Proprietors respectively, as to their Lessees, Copyhold or Customary Tenants, Sub-lessees, or Under-tenants, their, his, or her Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, if the said Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Tithes, and Hereditaments were identified, and the Boundaries and Quantities thereof ascertained and finally settled :

Be it 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,