175 *lunatics' Estates

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #4

CHAPTER 175.

LUNATICS' ESTATES.

AN ACT TO ENABLE IDEOTS AND LUNATICS, WHO ARE SEISED OR POSSESSED OF ESTATES IN FEE, OR FOR LIVES, OR TERMS OF YEARS, IN TRUST, OR BY WAY OF MORTGAGE, TO MAKE CONVEYANCES, SURRENDERS OR ASSIGNMENTS OF SUCH ESTATES.

[A.D. 1730.] 1. [This Act may be cited as The Lunatics' Estates Act.] 2. It shall and may be lawful to and for any such Person or Persons, being Ideot, Lunatic or Non compos mentis, or for the Committee or Committees of such Person or Persons, in his, her or their Name or Names, by the Direction of the [Supreme Court] signified by an Order made, upon hearing all parties concerned, on the Petition of the Person or Persons, for whom such Person or Persons being Ideot, Lunatic or Non compos mentis, shall be seised or possessed in Trust, or of the Mortgagor or Mortgagors, or of the Person or Persons intitled to the Monies secured by or upon any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, whereof any such Person or Persons being Ideot, Lunatic, or Non compos mentis, is or are or shall be seised or possessed by way of Mortgage, or of the Person or Persons intitled to the Redemption thereof, to convey and assure any such Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, in such Manner as the [Supreme Court] shall by such Order so to be obtained direct, to any other Person or Persons; and such Conveyance or Assurance, so to be had and made as aforesaid, shall be as good and effectual in Law, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever...