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LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - LONG TITLE An Act to facilitate the Sale and Transfer of Land in Ireland.{1} [2nd August 1858] Preamble rep. by SLR 1892 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 1 Construction of certain terms in this Act. 1. In the construction of this Act (except where the context or other provisions of this Act require a different construction), The word "land" shall include and extend to manors, advowsons, rectories, messuages, tithes, lands, tenements, rents, annuities charged on lands, and hereditaments of any tenure, or any estate therein, partial, derivative, or otherwise, and whether such land be held as freehold or chattel, or held by lease, or whether subject to any fee-farm or other perpetual rent, with or without the condition of re-entry for securing the same or otherwise, or whether corporeal or incorporeal, and whether a divided or undivided share; And the word "estate" shall include and extend to an estate in equity as well as at law, and to an equity of redemption, and to the benefit of any covenant or contract for or right of renewal and whether this land be held in fee simple or for any lesser estate, or held by lease; And the word "lease" shall include an agreement for a lease, and the estate or interest created or agreed to be created by such lease or agreement in the whole or in any part of the land therein comprised; And the expression "lease in perpetuity" shall mean any lease or grant for one or more life or lives, with or without a term of years, or determinable upon the expiration of any given term of years, or for years determinable on one or more life or lives, or for years absolute, with a covenant or agreement in any of such cases, whether in the same or any other instrument, for the perpetual renewal of such lease or grant, whether such lease shall be derived out of the inheritance or by way of under-lease out of any other lease or estate; The word "owner," as applied to land, shall include any person beneficially entitled in possession to an estate in fee simple or fee tail, ..., or for any lesser, partial, or derivative or other estate, freehold or chattel, at law or in equity, or any person entitled to such estate as a trustee for sale; And the words "person or owner" shall extend to a body politic or corporate, as well as to an individual; And the word "judge" shall mean one of the judges of the "Landed Estates Court, Ireland"; And the expression "the judge" shall mean the judge of the said Court before whom the matter shall be pending of which the section is conversant; Definition rep. by SLR 1892 And the word "incumbrance" shall mean any legal or equitable mortgage in fee, or for any less estate, and also any money secured by a trust, and also any legacy, portion, lien, or other charge, whereby a gross sum of money is secured to be paid on an event, or at a time certain, and also any annual or periodical charge, which by the instrument creating the same or any other instrument, is made purchaseable on payment of a gross sum of money, and every other charge upon land which is deemed an incumbrance in a court of equity, and which a court of equity would discharge by a sale of the land charged, or by the appointment of a receiver over the same: And the word "incumbrancer" shall mean a person entitled to an incumbrance absolutely, or a person entitled to the absolute or any partial or lesser interest in an incumbrance, or in any part thereof; And the word "Court" shall mean the "Landed Estates Court, Ireland"; and where the expression "the Court" shall be used in connexion with any act to be done or order to be made by the same, it shall mean the judge of the said Court before whom the matter referred to shall be pending. Definition rep. by SLR 1953 Ss.230 rep. by SLR 1875; SLR 1892; SLR 1893; SLR 1953; SLR 1963 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 31 Rules to provide for notice to tenants and owners of contiguous lands, &c. 31. The Court in framing general orders under this Act, shall have regard to the best mode of apprizing tenants on the estate of the subject of any matter or reference pending before the Court, and of the nature and effect of the proceeding, by causing notices to be posted on and in the vicinity of the lands, and also by advertisement or otherwise, thereby inviting them to establish their rights, with a view to have such reserved, and shall also have regard to the best mode of calling the attention of owners of lands contiguous to those which may be the subject of any matter or reference pending before the Court, to the boundaries set out in the maps annexed to the rental, and shall also have regard to the best mode of having brought before the judge a draft of every proposed conveyance or declaration, and of having produced before the judge such materials as shall enable him to settle such conveyance or declaration in accordance with the rights of the tenants and other parties concerned. S.32 rep. by SLR 1892. Ss.3335 rep. by SLR 1893 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 36 Orders of the Court may be enforced in England. 36. Every order made by the said Court constituted under this Act, a copy whereof shall be certified under their seal to the High Court of Chancery in England, may be enrolled in like manner and enforced by the like process as an order for payment or for accounting for money made by the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, a copy whereof is exemplified and certified to the said Court of Chancery in England under the Great Seal of Ireland, may be enrolled and enforced under the Crown Debts Act, 1801. S.37 rep. by SLR 1893; 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I. S.38 rep. by SLR 1893 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 39 Court may rescind or vary its own orders, &c. 39. It shall be lawful for the Court to review and rescind or vary any order which shall have been previously made by it or by the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates, or any of them; but, save as aforesaid, and as herein-after provided, every order of the Court shall be final. S.40 rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I. Ss.41, 42 rep. by SLR 1892 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 43 Owner of incumbered estate, or any incumbrancer, may apply for a sale. 43. Where any land in Ireland shall be subject to any incumbrance, it shall be lawful for any incumbrancer on such land, or for the owner of any estate therein charged with such incumbrance, to apply to the Court, under the provisions of this Act, for the sale of the estate in said land charged with such incumbrance. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 44 Owner of any estate may apply for a sale. 44. In any case where any person shall be seised or possessed of any estate in land as owner thereof, (save a trustee, other than a trustee for sale,) it shall be lawful for such person to apply to the Court for the sale of such estate under the provisions of this Act. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 45 Incumbrance secured by a trust term, or charged under a power. 45. Wherever any incumbrance affecting land shall be secured by a trust term thereof of not less than ninety-nine years absolute of which not less than sixty years shall be unexpired, and shall have been created by the owner of a larger estate in such land, whether freehold or chattel, such incumbrance shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed an incumbrance upon such larger estate; and an incumbrance on land charged under a power shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed an incumbrance upon the estate in such land of the person who created such power. S.46 rep. by SLR 1893 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 47 Vendor or vendee may apply for an investigation of title, and a conveyance with indefeasible title. 47. Whenever a contract for sale of any estate in Ireland shall be made, it shall and may be lawful for the vendor and vendee jointly, or, if the contract shall so provide, for the vendor or vendee individually, as the case may be, to present a petition to the said Court for the purpose of procuring for the said vendee an indefeasible title to the land so previously sold, and a statutable conveyance thereof under the said Court to him; and (if necessary) the Court, as incidental to such proceeding, may make an order for a specific performance of such contract at the instance of either party; and thereupon all investigations of title and other proceedings in relation to such petition shall be similar to those which are and shall be prescribed for owners applying for the sale of incumbered or unincumbered property by the Court as aforesaid, save that no sale thereof shall be made by the said Court, unless the petitioner, being the vendor, shall so desire, with the consent of the purchaser, but the sale or contract so theretofore made by the vendor shall be ratified by the said Court, if it shall so think fit; and a conveyance of such property so sold shall be executed to the purchaser by the judge, and such conveyance shall have the same validity and effect as conveyances of incumbered estates by the judges under this Act; and it shall and may be lawful for such Court, if necessary, to pay and discharge out of the purchase money such incumbrances as shall appear upon investigation of title to be charged upon the property so sold or contracted to be sold and for that purpose to order the purchase money into Court: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Court, at the joint instance of the vendor and vendee, to substitute any other person as purchaser in the room and stead of the original vendee, or to set up the land for sale under the Court; and in such case the conveyance shall be made by the judge to such substituted or other purchaser as if the original application had been for a sale of the lands so contracted for. S.48 rep. by SLR 1893. Ss.49, 50 rep. by SRO (NI) 1967/76Effect of declaration. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 51 Registry of declaration. 51. Where any owner of an estate in fee simple in land, whether subject to any fee-farm or other perpetual rent, in Ireland, shall desire to have his title thereto investigated by the Court, and a judicial declaration made thereon that he has a good and sufficient title to the same, as alleged by him, with view to future sale, mortgage, or registration thereof, or other objects, it shall be lawful for him to make an application to the Court for that purpose; whereupon the said Court shall investigate such title and give such notices, by advertisement or otherwise, as the Court may by general or special order direct, and otherwise proceed in like manner as if a sale of such land had been sought by the owner; and if such title shall appear satisfactory to the Court, it shall be lawful for the judge to make and sign a written declaration to that effect, which shall be sealed with the seal of the Court, and shall state, in a schedule thereto, any leases, tenancies, and incumbrances to which the Court shall find such estate subject; and such declaration, so signed, sealed, and registered as herein-after mentioned, shall have the effect of making such title so described in such declaration (but subject to the leases, tenancies, and incumbrances referred to in such schedule,) conclusive and indefeasible from the date of signing thereof by the judge, in like manner as same would have been vested in a purchaser upon a sale and conveyance to him by the Court upon an application to it for a sale of the said land; and it shall and may be lawful for such owner to have such declaration registered in the Office for the Registry of Deeds in Ireland; which original declaration the registrar of such office is hereby authorized and directed to file as he is now bound by law to do in respect to memorials to deeds, and shall receive such fees on the registration of such declaration as are now chargeable on the registration of deeds; and the registrar shall enter in the books of the registry the name of the person mentioned in said declaration as having such title, and the name and description of the lands therein set forth, and shall refer to same on a requisition for searches, in like manner as he is now bound by law to enter the names of parties and lands as described in memorials of deeds, and make such return on requisitions as aforesaid; and the registrar shall from time to time give attested copies of such declarations to any persons who shall require the same, on payment of the fees payable in respect of copies of memorials; and such copies of declarations shall have all the effect in evidence which has been given by any statute now in force with respect to memorials of deeds registered in the said office...; and the said Court shall keep a record of such declaration in such form and manner as shall be provided by a general order: Provided, that if after such investigation of title under this section the owner may be at liberty instead of obtaining such declaration, to have the land sold and conveyed by the Court, and the fund realized by such sale disposed of, as if the application had been originally to that effect. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 52 On application for a declaration of title the Court shall direct publication thereof to be made by advertisement, &c. 52. When and so soon as any application shall be made to the Court for a declaration of title under this Act, the first act of the Court in reference to such application shall be to cause publication thereof to be made by advertisement in such manner as the Court shall direct; and when and so soon as the Court shall make a rule, order, or decision as to the sufficiency of the title of the person applying for a declaration thereof as aforesaid, the Court shall cause such order or decision to be published in such manner as the Court shall direct; and such declaration shall not be signed by the judge until after the expiration of three calendar months from the first publication hereintofore mentioned, and of one calendar month after the publication of such rule, order, or decision provided that no appeal shall lie from the declaration of title when signed by the judge and registered as aforesaid. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 53 Power of Court to sell, and proceedings thereon. 53. If, upon any application for a sale, conveyance to a vendee, or declaration under this Act, or the execution of any decree or order for a sale directed by the Court of Chancery or Bankruptcy in Ireland respectively, or upon any information or evidence which may be received by and produced to the judge in relation to the matter of such application or reference, it shall appear to the judge that a sale or conveyance of the land to which the application, decree, or order may relate, or any part thereof, or conveyance to a vendee or declaration of title, may be found expedient, he shall direct notices to be given to such persons and in such manner as he shall think fit, and shall, where any parties interested in the land apply to the Court for that purpose, hear such parties, by themselves, their counsel or solicitors, and shall, so far only as may be necessary to enable him to determine whether, under all the circumstances, it is expedient that a sale of all or any part of the land should be made, or conveyance to a vendee be executed, or a declaration of title should be made, investigate the title and the incumbrances affecting the land, and the state and circumstances of the land; and, according as it shall seem so expedient to the judge, it shall be lawful for him, at his discretion, to make or refuse an order for the sale of all or any part of such land, or for a conveyance to such vendee, or a declaration of title accordingly, in manner aforesaid; or, if he see fit, he may dismiss any original application in such matter, or report or certify the insufficiency of the title to the Court of Chancery or Court of Bankruptcy in manner aforesaid.Sale may be made subject to annual charge or apportioned part thereof. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 54 Court to ascertain tenancies, right of common, &c. 54. Where a sale shall be made, or a conveyance executed, or a title declared under this Act, the judge shall, when and so far as he may deem necessary for the purpose of such sale, conveyance, or declaration, ascertain the tenancies of the occupying tenants, and of any lessees or under-lessees whose tenancies, leases, or under-leases and other such rights as aforesaid affect the land or part thereof to be sold, conveyed, or to be the subject of such declaration, and the rights of persons claiming right of common, rights of way, or other easements in such lands, and shall also ascertain the boundaries thereof, and may give such notices and make or cause to be made such inquiries as he may think necessary for ascertaining and securing the rights of such tenants, lessees, under-lessees, or persons having such easements as aforesaid, and for ascertaining the boundaries of such lands; and all occupying tenants, and all persons being or claiming to be lessees or under-lessees as aforesaid, or claiming such right of common, right of way, or other easement, shall, at such times and places as the judge may by his notices require, produce all leases, under-leases, agreements in writing, or deeds or instruments under which such tenant or person occupy or claim to hold, or such persons claim such easements, if such leases, under-leases, or agreements, or counterparts thereof, or such deeds or instruments, be in their possession or power; and where they occupy or claim to hold under leases, under-leases, or agreements in writing not in their possession or power, or under parol agreements or lettings, they shall deliver, at such times and places as aforesaid, particulars of the terms and conditions upon and subject to which they occupy or claim to hold; and such persons as may claim right of common, right of way, or other easements, or who may dispute such alleged boundaries, shall also in like manner deliver particulars of such rights or such grounds of objection to such boundaries, and shall sustain such claims or objections; and the sale, conveyance, or declaration shall be made subject to the tenancies, leases, or under-leases, rights of common, rights of way, or other easements, and to such boundaries ascertained as aforesaid, and subject to which the owner, incumbrancer, or other person applying for a sale, conveyance, or declaration under this Act shall be owner or incumbrancer, and such other of the tenancies, leases, and under-leases, or easements, ascertained as above, as shall appear to the said judge to have been granted bona fide by the owner or person in possession or in receipt of the rents and profits, and subject to which it shall appear to the said judge the sale, conveyance, or declaration should be made, save such (if any) of such respective tenancies, leases, and under-leases as, with consent as herein-after mentioned, shall be included in such sale, and, where the said judge shall think fit, be made subject to any leases, under-leases, or tenancies, according to any general description, or subject to any condition concerning any leases, under-leases, or tenancies, or easements, the nature of which shall not have been ascertained or shall be disputed; and the decision of the said judge in relation to such claim under leases or of easement, or in relation to such boundaries, shall be final and conclusive as to all persons whatsoever, but subject to the appeal hereby provided from the orders of the judges; and when the said judge shall think fit, such sale, conveyance, or declaration may be made subject to any annual charge affecting the land or part thereof sold, or to any such apportioned part of such annual charge as the judge may think fit should remain charged thereon; and where such estate in land or part thereof is subject to any incumbrance under the terms of which the incumbrancer cannot be required to accept payment of the principal money before the expiration of a term of years unexpired, such sale or conveyance may, if the said judge think fit, be made subject to such incumbrance; and the Court shall have power, upon any application for sale, ... to sell and convey any land subject to any right, title, or estate to or in dower, jointure, or annuity. S.55 rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 56 Purchase money to be paid into Supreme Court. 56. The purchase money in every case shall be paid [into the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland ("the Supreme Court"), and] a certificate of such payment shall be endorsed on or written at the foot of the conveyance or assignment by the judge who shall execute the same; and on such payment ... the purchaser shall be discharged from all liability in respect of the application of the money so paid; and such certificate of the judge under the seal of the Court shall be evidence of the payment.Incumbrancer becoming purchaser may deduct the amount of his incumbrance from the purchase money, with leave of Court. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 57 Persons interested may bid at sale, except petitioner, who may bid by permission of the Court, and the person having carriage of sale, &c. 57. Provided always, that it shall be lawful for any incumbrancer on, or person otherwise interested in, any land or rentcharge, or part thereof, (other than the incumbrancer or owner upon whose application the sale has been ordered, or the person having carriage of the sale, or attorney or solicitor of such incumbrancer or owner as last aforesaid, or of the person having carriage of the sale,) to bid at any public sale, and to become the purchaser at any public sale or by private contract, in like manner as any person not interested therein might bid and become the purchaser; and, by leave of the said judge, it shall be lawful for the incumbrancer or owner on whose application the sale has been ordered to bid and become the purchaser; and where an incumbrancer on any land, or part thereof, shall be the purchaser of such land, or part thereof, the judge may, if he think fit, authorize such purchaser to retain out of the purchase money the amount which might have been ordered to be paid thereout in respect of such incumbrance in case the whole purchase money had been paid [into the Supreme Court] under this Act, or such sum on account of such amount as the judge may think fit, and to pay the residue only of the purchase money [into the Supreme Court]; and where, at the time of authorizing such retainer as aforesaid, the said judge shall not finally have ascertained and determined the priority and rights of such purchaser in respect of his incumbrance, or the amount which he would be entitled to be paid in respect thereof out of the purchase money, such retainer shall be without prejudice to the power of the said judge to require such purchaser to pay [into the Supreme Court] the whole or any part of the amount so retained which ought to be paid by him; and the said judge shall withhold his certificate of payment herein-before mentioned until he shall be satisfied that the full purchase money, less the amount which such purchaser would be entitled to be paid in respect of his incumbrance, has been paid [into the Supreme Court]. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 58 Court may include arrears of rent in sale of land. 58. Where a sale is made by the Court under the said recited Acts or this Act of any land or lease, it shall be lawful for it, whenever it shall appear to such Court convenient so to do, to include in such sale all or any part of the arrears of rent, if any, which may at the time of the sale be owing from any lessees or tenants, subject to whose leases or tenancies the sale is to be made, where such arrears are subject to any incumbrance in respect of which an incumbrancer shall have obtained an order for sale, or where the order for sale has been obtained by the owner, and in the conveyance or assignment of such land or lease to assign such arrears to the purchaser accordingly; and such purchaser, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, shall, after such assignment of the said arrears, have, for the recovery and in respect of the nonpayment thereof, the same rights and remedies which the person or persons who would have been entitled to such arrears would have possessed if no such assignment thereof or any conveyance or assignment of such land or lease had been made. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 59 Where sale of undivided share is applied for, the Court may include the other undivided share at the instance of owner or incumbrancer. 59. Where there is or shall be an application to the Court for the sale of any undivided share of any land, it shall be lawful for the Court, where it shall see fit so to do, upon the application of the owner of any other undivided share or shares of the same land or lease, (and although such other undivided share be not subject to any incumbrance), or on the application of any incumbrancer on such other undivided share or shares, to include the same share or shares, upon such terms as it shall see fit, with the share so proposed to be sold as aforesaid; and in every such case the Court shall apportion the purchase money among the owners, according to their respective shares so sold, and shall apportion the expenses as they may see fit. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 60 Court may order conversion of leaseholds in perpetuity into fee farm under 1849 c.105. 60. Where the Court has ordered or shall order the sale of any lease in perpetuity, it shall and may be lawful for the Court, if it shall think it expedient so to do, to cause the same to be converted into a fee farm under the Renewable Leasehold Conversion Act, and for that purpose to cause notice to be given to the owners or other person interested in the reversion or any person on behalf of such owner or other persons, or any person deemed owner under the provisions of the Leasehold Conversion Act; and the Court may thereupon proceed to convert such lease in perpetuity into a fee farm grant, according to the principles prescribed in the Renewable Leasehold Conversion Act, but the procedure in relation thereto shall be according to the general rules and practice of the said Court; and in case such conversion shall be ordered, the Court shall have power to convey the land included in such lease to the purchaser in fee, subject to the fee-farm rent to be ascertained as aforesaid, and to such exceptions, reversions, covenants, and clauses as shall be in conformity with the original lease, and the provisions of the Renewable Leasehold Conversion Act; and thereupon the owner of the immediate reversion expectant on the said lease in perpetuity for the time being shall have the same rights and remedies against the purchaser, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, and against the land, by action, distress, entry, or otherwise, in respect of such rent, and of any exceptions, reservations, covenants, and clauses contained in the said deed, as belong by law to the owner of any fee-farm rent created under the said Acts.Conveyance of a lease, rentcharge, annuity, or partial estate, to pass estate created by the instrument purporting to grant the same, &c. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 61 Conveyance to purchaser to pass fee, subject to tenancies, &c. therein mentioned, but discharged from all other estates and incumbrances. 61. Every such conveyance executed as aforesaid by the said judge purporting to pass an estate in fee simple shall be effectual to pass the fee simple and inheritance of the land, subject to such charges, tenancies, rights of common or other easements, leases, and under-leases, as may be expressed or referred to therein as aforesaid but, save as aforesaid, and as herein-after provided, discharged from all former and other estates, rights, titles, charges, and incumbrances whatsoever of Her Majesty, and of all other persons whomsoever; and every such conveyance or assignment executed by the said judge upon the sale of a lease or rentcharge, or an annuity charged on land, or any partial or lesser estate than an estate in fee simple, shall be effectual to pass the estate created or agreed to be created by such lease, then remaining unexpired, or by the instrument creating such lesser or partial estate, rentcharge, or annuity, but subject as to such lease to the rent and covenants annexed to the reversion expectant on the determination of such lease, and, as to such instrument creating such rentcharge, annuity, or partial or lesser estate, subject to such tenancies, rights of common or other easements, leases and under-leases, as shall be expressed or referred to in such conveyance or assignment, but save as aforesaid, and as herein-after provided, discharged from all rights, titles, charges, and incumbrances whatsoever affecting the leasehold estate or interest, rentcharge, annuity, or partial or lesser estate: Provided always, that where any land or lease, or part thereof, shall be sold and conveyed or assigned subject to any annual charge or apportioned part thereof, such annual charge or such apportioned part thereof (as the case may be) shall remain and be charged on and payable out of such land, or part thereof, as in the conveyance or assignment shall be expressed. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 62 Conveyance, &c. not to affect tithe rentcharges, Crown rents, &c. or charges made by virtue of 1842 c.89, and 1847 c.32, except where Court thinks fit to redeem Crown rents, &c. 62. Provided always, that any conveyance, assignment, or declaration of title under this Act shall not prejudice or affect rentcharge in lieu of tithes, Crown rent, or quit rent charged upon or issuing out of any land, or any charge made by virtue of the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1842 and the Acts amending the same, or by virtue of the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1847, save where the said Court shall think fit to redeem... the Crown rents or quit rents, or any part thereof, or to pay off or redeem the charges under the said Acts or either of them, under the power herein-after contained, and shall express in such conveyance or assignment that the land conveyed or assigned thereby is so conveyed or assigned discharged of all Crown rents or quit rents or charges under the said Acts or either of them, as the case may be; and in such case such land shall be so discharged accordingly: Provided always, that in every case in which application shall be made to the Court for the sale or conveyance of, or declaration of title to, the fee simple of any land or hereditaments, the judge, before making any final order for such sale, conveyance, or declaration, shall be satisfied that one calendar month's previous notice in writing of such application has been given to the Commissioners of Woods, on behalf of Her Majesty, stating full particulars of the land or hereditaments for the sale or conveyance of or declaration of title to which application has been or is intended to be made, and of any rent payable to Her Majesty in respect of the same. S.63 rep. by 1969 c.30 (NI) s.132 sch.6 LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 64 Application of purchase money. 64. The Court shall, out of the purchase money to be received on any sale under this Act, where any sale has been made in any matter of a petition filed in the said Court, allow and pay such costs of and consequential on the application for the sale and the expenses of and incidental to the sale, according to the provisions contained in the twelfth section of the statute of the sixteenth and seventeenth of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter sixty-four; and the surplus of such purchase money, after payment of such costs and expenses, shall, under the order of the Court, be applied in or towards payment or satisfaction of the incumbrances or charges, if any, which affect such land, or part thereof, according to their priorities, and shall, subject as aforesaid, be paid to the owner where such owner was absolutely entitled thereto, or, where not so entitled, be laid out in the purchase of land, which shall be limited and settled to the same uses, upon the same trusts, for the same purposes, and in the same manner, as the land or part thereof sold stood settled or limited to, or such of them as shall be then subsisting or capable of taking effect; and until such money can be so laid out, it may, under such order as aforesaid, be transferred or paid over to the trustees to be appointed or approved by the Court for the purpose of being so laid out as aforesaid, with such power for the investment thereof in Government stocks, funds, or securities in the meantime, and such directions for the payment of the income of such investments in the manner in which the rents of the land to be purchased would be applicable, as the Court shall think fit: Provided always, that if by mistake or otherwise any purchase money shall, under the provisions aforesaid, have been paid to any person or persons as being the person or persons absolutely entitled thereto when he or they were not so entitled, such money shall be deemed to have been paid to him or them upon an express trust to invest the same in the purchase of lands to be settled to the uses and upon the trusts to and upon which the lands sold stood limited, settled, and assured at the time of the sale. S.65 rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 66 Power to appoint, change, or remove trustees. 66. Whenever in the course of proceedings in any petition matter pending before the Court it shall appear expedient to appoint, change or remove trustees, it shall and may be lawful for the judge to make such orders and give such directions in reference to such appointment, change, or removal, and in reference to the vesting property in new trustees, as [the High Court] is empowered to make under the authority vested [in it] for such purposes by the Trustee Act, 1850, and also by the Trustee Act, 1852, and by any other Act which may be passed in relation to trustees. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 67 Provision for future appointments of new trustees. 67. Whenever the Court shall appoint or direct the appointment of trustees for any of the purposes of this Act, it shall be lawful for the judge to make or to direct to be made such provision as he shall think fit for the appointment of new trustees on any event to be determined by the Court. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 68 Court may provide for the application of the purchase money. 68. ... it shall also be lawful for the Court to sell any land, or part thereof, discharged from any Crown rent or quit rent which it may be enabled, and may, with the consent of the owner, think fit to purchase, or from any charge made by virtue of the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1842, and the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1847, or either of them, which it may, with such consent, think fit to pay off or redeem; and in any such case the Court shall, out of the money arising from the sale, and in preference to all other payments thereout, pay the consideration for the purchase of such Crown rent or quit rent, or such sum as may be necessary for paying off or redeeming such charge; and it shall be lawful for the Court, where it shall think fit, ... to pay to any person entitled to any annual or other charge, not being an incumbrance according to the definition of this Act, who may consent to accept the same, a gross sum in discharge or by way of redemption thereof or of a part thereof, and, where a part only of any land or lease subject to any incumbrance or charge is sold, to charge the part not sold with such incumbrance or charge, or an apportioned part thereof, in exoneration of the money arising from the sale, and to enable or authorize persons to release the money arising from the part so sold from any incumbrance or charge, or to relinquish their claim on such money in respect thereof, without impairing or affecting such incumbrance or charge as to the remaining part of the land or lease originally charged; and the Court, where it shall think fit, may invest or provide for the investment of money to meet any annual or periodicial charge, or any other charge, incumbrance, or interest, where, by reason of such charge, incumbrance, or interest being contingent, or otherwise, it shall appear to the Court proper or expedient so to do, and otherwise may make such orders and directions for applying the money arising from any sale in such manner as will secure the convenient application thereof for the benefit and according to the rights of the parties interested in the land or part thereof from the sale of which the same shall have arisen. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 69 No payment, not being in full, to affect right of incumbrancer for balance; and no payment in respect of any incumbrance to impair remedy over. 69. Provided always, that no payment under this Act towards discharge of what shall be due on any incumbrance or charge, not being payment in full, shall prejudice or affect any right or remedy of the incumbrancer or the person entitled to the charge in respect of the balance, otherwise than against the land, or part thereof, sold under this Act; and no payment under this Act for or in respect of any incumbrance or charge shall impair any right or equity of any persons out of whose estate such payment shall be made to be reimbursed or indemnified by any person or out of any other land or estate, except so far as the Court under any special circumstances shall order. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 70 Power to Court to order money to be paid into Court. 70. Where any money arising from a sale under this Act is not immediately distributable, or the parties entitled thereto cannot be ascertained, or where from any other cause the Court may think it expedient for the protection of the rights and interests therein, the Court at its discretion, may order such money, or any stocks, funds, or securities in which the same may have been invested under this Act, to be [paid into the Supreme Court or (where the case may require) the Supreme Court of Judicature of England], in the matter of the parties interested in the same, to be described as the Court shall think fit and direct, in trust to attend the orders of such Courts respectively; and the Court may by its order declare the trust affecting such money, stocks, funds, or securities, so far as it may have ascertained the same, or state (for the information of the respective courts) the facts or matters found by it in relation to the rights and interests therein; [and the High Courts of Justice], in England and Ireland respectively, may make such orders and give such directions in relation to any such moneys, stocks, funds, or securities as shall be so [paid into] such respective Court, as such Court or judge respectively might make or give in relation to any trusts, moneys, stocks, or securities paid in, transferred, or deposited under [section 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 or section 63 of the Trustee Act (Northern Ireland) 1958]. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 71 Lands included in different applications, and different interests in the same lands may be included in the same sale. 71. Where there shall be separate applications to the Court for sales under this Act of any land and of any lease in the same land, or there shall be such applications for sales of different undivided shares of any land or lease, it shall be lawful for the Court, where they shall see fit so to do, to include, with the consent of the persons by whom such respective application may be made or prosecuted, and of any other persons whose consent the Court may under the circumstances think fit to require, in the same sale, upon such terms as they think fit, such land or lease, or such leases, or such several undivided shares as aforesaid; and where there shall be separate applications for sales under this Act of any land, and of any lease in other land, or if different lands or leases in different lands, it shall be lawful for the Court, where, from the lands being intermixed, or from other circumstances, it shall appear to them convenient so to do, to include, with such consent as aforesaid, such land or lease, or lands or leases, in the same sale, upon such terms as it may think fit; and where any land, or part thereof, subject to any incumbrance, is proposed or ordered to be sold under this Act, it shall be lawful for the Court, upon the application of the owner of any lease or under-lease, or estate in reversion, or other estate or interest whatsoever in the same land, (and although such lease, under-lease, estate in reversion, or other estate or interest be not subject to any incumbrance, or would not, if subject to any incumbrance, be subject to be sold under an order of the Court under the provisions herein-before contained,) or upon the application of any incumbrancer on any such lease, under-lease, estate, or interest, to include the same, upon such terms as they may see fit, in the sale of the land or lease, or part thereof, so proposed or ordered to be sold as aforesaid; and all the provisions of this Act applicable to any land subject to any incumbrance, and ordered to be sold under this Act, and to any incumbrance or charge upon such land, and the purchase money arising from the sale thereof, and to the conveyance or assignment thereof, shall, so far as circumstances admit, extend and be applicable to every such lease, under-lease, estate in reversion, or other estate or interest to be so included in the sale; and in every such case as aforesaid the judge shall apportion the purchase money and expenses as he shall see fit. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 72 If land sold be subject to a lease, &c. comprising other land, or if part of lease in perpetuity, &c. to be sold, Court may apportion the rent. 72. If any land to be sold under this Act shall be subject to a lease or under-lease for years or lives comprising other land at an entire rent, it shall be lawful for the Court to apportion the rent between the land to be sold and the remainder of the land subject to such rent; and where it is intended to sell under this Act a part only of any lease in perpetuity or other lease, it shall be lawful for the Court, where it shall think fit, and (having regard to the rights and interests of the owner of the reversion) it shall appear to the Court just so to do, to apportion the rent reserved by such lease between the land to be sold and the remainder of the land; and the Court shall direct notices of any such intended apportionment as aforesaid to be given to such persons and in such manner as it shall think fit, and shall hear such parties as shall apply to them in relation thereto; and after such apportionment, and after the sale shall be completed, the owners of the reversion in the respective lands shall have the like remedies for the apportioned rents against the lands out of which the same shall be payable, and the owners and occupiers thereof respectively, as were subsisting for the entire rent before such apportionment; and all the covenants, conditions, and agreements of every lease or under-lease, except as to the amount of rent to be paid, shall, as regards the apportioned parts, remain in force in the same manner as they would have done in case no such application had taken place: Provided always, that the enactment in this section shall be deemed to apply to any rent reserved upon a lease, where the Court shall have sold or shall sell the reversion expectant upon such lease at different times or in different lots. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 73 Provision for persons under disability. 73. Where any person who (if not under disability) might have made any application, given any consent, done any act, or been party to any proceedings under this Act, shall be a minor, idiot, lunatic, ..., the guardian, committee of the estate, ... respectively of such person may make such applications, give such consents, do such acts, and be party to such proceedings, as such persons respectively, if free from disability, might have made, given, done, or been party to and shall otherwise represent such person for the purposes of this Act; ...: Provided always, that where there shall be no guardian or committee of the estate of any such person as aforesaid being infant, idiot or lunatic, or where any person the committee of whose estate, if he were an idiot or lunatic, would be authorized to act for and represent such person under this Act, shall be of unsound mind, or incapable of managing his affairs, but shall not have been found idiot or lunatic under an inquisition, it shall be lawful for the Court to appoint a guardian of such person for the purpose of any proceedings under this Act, and from time to time to change such guardian; .... Ss.74, 75 rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 76 Proceedings not to abate by death, &c. 76. Proceedings under this Act shall not abate or be suspended by any death or transmission or change of interest; but in any such case of death or transmission or change of interest, it shall be lawful for the Court, where it shall see fit, to require notices to be given to persons becoming interested, or to make any order for discontinuing, suspending or carrying on the proceedings, or otherwise in relation thereto, which to it may appear just. Ss.77, 78 rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 79 On application for sale of an undivided share, or after sale, Court may, on application of party interested, make order for a partition. 79. Where an application shall be made for a sale under this Act of an undivided share of any land, or where any such undivided share shall have been sold under this Act, and, either before or after the conveyance or assignment thereof under this Act, the Court, on the application of any party interested in such undivided share, or of the purchaser, (as the case may be,) and after causing to be given such notices to the owner or owners of the other undivided share or shares of the same land or lease as it may think fit, and hearing such parties interested in the respective shares as may apply to it, and making or causing to be made such inquiries as may enable it to make a just partition, may, if it shall think fit, make an order under its seal for the partition of such land; and in such order, or in a map or plan annexed thereto, shall be shown the part allotted in severalty in respect of each of the undivided shares in such land; and the Court shall have the like authorities, jurisdiction, and power in relation to such partition under the direction of such Court; and the part so allotted in severalty in respect of each such undivided share by such order for partition as aforesaid shall, without any conveyance or other assurance in relation thereto, go and enure to and upon the same uses and trusts, and be subject to the same conditions, charges, and incumbrances, as the undivided share in respect of which the same is so allotted would have stood limited or been subject to in case such order had not been made; and the like order for a sale of the part allotted in respect of the undivided share to which the application for the sale shall relate may be made (where the order for partition is made before the sale), and the like proceedings had in relation to such sale, and the like conveyance or assignment may be made of the part allotted in respect of the share sold (where the order for partition is made after sale, and before conveyance or assignment), and with the like consequences in the several cases aforesaid, as if the application for a sale, or the sale, (as the case may be,) had been in respect of the part so allotted as aforesaid; and where any land or lease, or part thereof, to be sold under this Act, is subject to any lease, under-lease, or tenancy, under which the lessees, under-lessees, or tenants hold jointly, or as tenants in common, it shall be lawful for the Court, on the application of any such lessee, under-lessee, or tenants, and after causing to be given such notices as it may think fit, and hearing such parties as may apply to it, and making such inquiries as it may think necessary, to make an order under its seal for the partition, as between such lessees, under-lessees, or tenants, of the land included in their lease, under-lease, or tenancy, and for the apportionment of the rent reserved or payable under such lease, under-lease, or tenancy; and after such order of partition the owner of the reversion in the respective parts of the land shall have the like remedies for the apportioned rents against the respective parts out of which the same shall be payable, and the lessees, under-lessees, or tenants holding such respective parts under such lease, under-lease, or tenancy, and such order of partition, as were subsisting for the entire rent before such partition and apportionment; and all the covenants, conditions and agreements of every such lease, under-lease, or tenancy, except as to the amount of rent to be paid, shall, as regards the respective parts allotted on such partition, and the apportioned parts of the rent, remain in force as against the respective lessees, under-lessees, or tenants to whom under such partition such respective parts shall be allotted. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 80 On application for sale, or after sale, Court, on application of party interested, and with consent, may make order for exchange. 80. Where an application shall be made for a sale under this Act of any land or part thereof, or where the same shall have been sold under this Act, and either before or after the conveyance or assignment thereof under this Act, if application be made to the Court by any party interested in such land, or by the purchaser, (as the case may be,) for the exchange of all or any part of such land for other land which the owner thereof may be willing to give in exchange, the Court may make or cause to be made such inquiries as they think fit, for ascertaining whether such exchange would be beneficial to the person interested in the respective lands, and cause such notices to be given to parties interested in the respective lands, as it may think fit; and if, after making such inquiries, and hearing such parties interested in the respective lands as may apply to them, the Court shall be of opinion that such exchange would be beneficial, and that the terms thereof as proposed, or as modified by it with the consent of such owner as aforesaid, are just and reasonable, the said Court may make an order under their seal for such exchange accordingly; and in such order for exchange, or in a map or plan annexed thereto, shall be shown the lands given and taken in exchange respectively under such order; and the land taken upon such exchange under such order shall, without any conveyance or other assurance in relation thereto, go and enure to and upon the same uses and trusts, and be subject to the same conditions, charges, and incumbrances, as the land given on such exchange would have stood limited or been subject to in case such order had not been made; and the like order for a sale may be made by the Court in respect of the land taken in exchange for any land to which the application for a sale shall relate, (where the order for exchange is made before sale,) and the like proceedings had in relation to such sale, and the like conveyance or assignment may be made in respect of the land taken in exchange for the land or part thereof sold, (where the order for exchange is made after sale, and before conveyance or assignment,) and with the like consequences in the several cases aforesaid, as if applicable for a sale, or the sale (as the case may be) had been in respect of the land taken in exchange. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 81 Partition may be made of land where shares are not subject to be sold under this Act. 81. It shall be lawful for the Court, on the application of the owners of the several undivided shares (not subject to be sold under this Act, or as to which no proceedings for a sale under this Act shall be pending,) or of any land in Ireland who shall desire to effect a partition of such land, to make or cause to be made such inquiries as the Court may think fit for ascertaining whether such partition would be beneficial to the persons interested in such respective shares; and in case the Court shall be of opinion that the proposed partition would be beneficial, and that the terms thereof are just and reasonable, it shall make an order under the seal for such partition accordingly; and in such order, or in a map or plan annexed thereto, shall be shown the part allotted in severalty in respect of each such undivided share; and the part so allotted in severalty in respect of such undivided share by such order of partition shall, without any conveyance or other assurance in relation thereto, go and enure to and upon the same use, and be subject to the same conditions, charges, and incumbrances, as the undivided share in respect of which the same is so allotted would have stood limited or been subject to in case such order had not been made. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 82 Exchanges may be made of lands not subject to be sold under this Act. 82. It shall be lawful for the Court, upon the application of the owner of lands in Ireland not subject to be sold under this Act or as to which no proceedings for a sale under this Act shall be pending, who shall desire to effect an exchange of such lands, to make or cause to be made such inquiries as the Court may think fit for ascertaining whether such exchange would be beneficial to the persons interested in the respective lands; and in case the Court shall be of opinion that the proposed exchange would be beneficial, and that the terms thereof are just and reasonable, they shall make an order under their seal for such exchange accordingly; and in such order for exchange, or in a map or plan annexed thereto, shall be shown the lands given and taken in exchange respectively under such order; and the land taken upon such exchange under such order shall, without any conveyance or other assurance in relation thereto, go and enure to and upon the same uses and trusts, and be subject to the same conditions, charges, and incumbrances, as the land given upon such exchange would have stood limited or been subject to in case such order had not been made. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 83 Division of intermixed land not subject to be sold under this Act. 83. It shall be lawful for the Court, upon the application of any number of persons who shall be separately owners of parcels of land for any estate in Ireland not subject to be sold under this Act, or as to which no proceedings for a sale under this Act shall be pending, so intermixed or divided into parcels of inconvenient forms or quantity that the same cannot be cultivated or occupied to the best advantage, but forming together a tract which may be divided into convenient parcels, and who shall desire to have the whole of such tract divided into convenient parcels, to be allotted in lieu of the old parcels, to make or cause to be made such inquiries as the Court may think fit, for ascertaining whether such proposed division and allotment would be beneficial to the persons interested in such lands; and in case the Court shall be of opinion that the proposed division and allotment would be beneficial, it shall make an order for the division and allotment thereof accordingly, with a map or plan thereunto annexed, in which shall be specified as well the parcels in which the several persons on whose application such order shall have been made were respectively interested before such division and allotment, as the several parcels allotted to them respectively by such order; and the parcels of land taken under such division and allotment shall go and enure to and upon the same uses and trusts, and be subject to the same conditions, charges, and incumbrances, as the several lands which the persons taking the same shall have relinquished or lost in such division would have stood limited or been subject to in case such order had not been made. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 84 Notices of partitions, exchanges, and divisions to be given, &c. 84. Provided always, that in the case of land in which no proceedings for a sale under this Act shall be pending, no such order of partition, or of exchange, or of division and allotment, as aforesaid, shall be made by the Court until such notices by advertisement in public newspaper or newspapers as the Court shall direct shall have been given of such proposed partition, exchange, or division and allotment, and three calendar months shall have elapsed from the publication of such advertisements; and in case before the expiration of such three calendar months any person entitled to any estate in or to any charge upon any land included in such proposed partition, exchange, or division and allotment, shall give notice in writing to the Court of his dissent from such proposed partition, exchange, or division and allotment (as the case may be), the Court shall not make an order for such partition, exchange, or division and allotment, unless such dissent shall be withdrawn, or it shall be shown to the Court that the estate or charges of the party so dissenting shall have ceased, or that such estate or charges is not an estate or charge in respect of which he would be entitled in equity to prevent such partition, exchange, or division and allotment; but no such order as aforesaid shall be in anywise liable to be impeached by reason of any infirmity of estate or defect of title of the persons on whose application the same shall have been made. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 85 Conveyances, assignments, declarations, and orders for partition, exchange, or division and allotment, conclusive. 85. Every conveyance, assignment, and declaration respectively executed as required by this Act, and every order for partition or for exchange, or for division and allotment, made by the Court under its seal, shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence that every application, proceeding, consent, and act whatsoever which ought to have been made, given, and done previously to the execution of such conveyance, assignment, or declaration, or the making of such order respectively, has been made, given, and done by the persons authorized to make, give, and do the same; and no such conveyance, assignment, declaration, or order shall be impeached by reason of any informality therein; and every such order shall operate, and may be registered in the office for registering deeds in Ireland, in like manner as if conveyances by way of partition, exchange, division, or allotment had been executed for such purposes. S.86 rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 87 Rights of purchaser against tenants. 87. Where any conveyance or assignment has been made before the passing of this Act by the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, or shall hereafter be made by the Court, subject to any lease, under-lease, or tenancy, such conveyance or assignment shall be deemed to afford conclusive proof that the estate or interest purporting to be conveyed or assigned thereby is the reversion expectant upon such lease, under-lease, or tenancy; and it shall not be necessary in any action arising out of or connected with such lease, under-lease, or tenancy, or in any pleadings in such action, to allege or prove the title of such reversion prior to the said conveyance or assignment; and the person to whom such conveyance or assignment is made, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, shall and may have and enjoy the like advantages against the lessees, under-lessees, and tenants, their heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, and under-tenants, and against all other persons in possession or occupation of the land comprised in such conveyance or assignment, by distress or by entry for nonpayment of rent or for doing of waste or other forfeiture, and also shall and may have and enjoy like advantages and remedies by action for not performing other conditions, covenants, and agreements contained in such lease or under-lease or in the parol agreement for such tenancy, against the said lessees, under-lessees, and tenants, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, as the person granting such lease or under-lease, or as the landlord entering into the agreement for such tenancy, or his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, ought to have had and enjoyed at any time or times, in like manner and form as if the reversion in such land expectant on such lease, under-lease, and tenancy had remained or continued in such person granting such lease or under-lease, or as landlord entering into such agreement. S.88 rep. by SLR 1893. S.89 rep. by SLR 1893; 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I. S.90 rep. by 1946 c.13 (NI) s.16(3) sch. LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND) ACT 1858 - SECT 91 Extent of Act. 91. This Act shall except as far as the special provisions of the same otherwise require, extend only to Ireland. Schedule A rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I 12. In the case of any petition for a sale presented after the passing of this Act, the costs of the petitioner in respect of such petition and of any proceedings thereunder shall not (unless the Commissioners shall otherwise direct) be payable out of the proceeds of the sale otherwise than in the same order of priority in which the incumbrance of the petitioner shall be payable, anything in the said recited Acts, or any rule or practice of the Commissioners, to the contrary notwithstanding.