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Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 1–19 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1964 (c. 79)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 All conveyances and grants, either by way of purchase or by way of gift or of benefaction, of lands, tenements, and hereditaments hereafter to be made to or by the direction of the said governors and their successors, according to the rules and orders established for the regulation of the said bounty by letters patent under the great seal of Great Britain, and pursuant to the charter of incorporation of the said governors, and the several Acts of Parliament in that case made and provided for the perpetual augmentation of small livings and cures, may be made according to the following form, or as near thereto as the number of the parties and the circumstances of the case will admit; namely,
“I of , in consideration of [state the consideration], do hereby grant and convey to the said governors, their successors and assigns, [or to the rector, vicar, curate, or incumbent of the rectory, vicarage, curacy, or chapelry of (as the case may be), and his successors, by the direction of the said governors (testified by their affixing their common seal to this deed),] all [describing the premises to be conveyed] together with all ways, rights, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and all such estate, right, title and interest in and to the same and every part thereof as I am or shall become seised or possessed of, to hold the said premises to the said governors, their successors and assigns, for ever, to be by them applied and disposed of [or to hold the said premises to the said rector, &c., as the case may be, and his successors for ever,] for the augmentation of the maintenance of the said rector, vicar, curate, or incumbent (as the case may be) of the rectory, vicarage, curacy, or chapelry of . In witness whereof, &c.”
And all such conveyances and grants shall be valid and effectual in the law to convey all the right, title, and interest of the grantors or grantor in the premises thereby conveyed or granted.
Textual Amendments
F2Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The “said governors” means the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty now Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 18(2)
C2The “said bounty” means Queen Anne's Bounty (dissolved and property transferred to the Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 2)
Textual Amendments
F3S. 21 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971 (c. 52)
In all such conveyances and grants made for valuable consideration for the augmentation of any small living or cure, the word “grant” shall, where the grantors or grantor at the time of such conveyances or grants had or claimed to have a beneficial interest in the premises conveyed, granted, or charged operate as and be construed and adjudged in all courts of judicature to be an express covenant to or with the grantees or grantee their or his successors and assigns, by or from the grantors or grantor, their, his, or her successors, heirs, executors, and administrators, that, notwithstanding any act of the said grantors or grantor or their or any of their ancestors, to the contrary, the said grantors or grantor were or was at the time of the execution of such conveyances or grants seised or possessed of, and had full power and authority to grant and convey or to charge, the lands or premises thereby granted or charged, for an indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple, or otherwise for such estate or interest as therein expressed, free from all incumbrances, and notwithstanding any such Act as aforesaid, the grantees or grantee, their or his successors and assigns, shall quietly enjoy such lands and premises, or such rentcharge, as the case may be against all persons whomsoever claiming or to claim by, from, under, or in trust for such grantors or grantor, or, by, from, under or in trust for their or any of their ancestors, and be indemnified and saved harmless by the said grantors or grantor, their, his, or her successors, heirs, executors, and administrators, from all incumbrances whatsoever made or created by such grantors or grantor, or any of them, or their or any of their ancestors, and also for further assurance, at the expence of the grantees or grantee, their or his successors or assigns, of such lands and premises, or of such rentcharge by the said grantors or grantor, and all persons claiming under them, him, or her, unless and except and so far as the same shall be restrained or limited by express particular words contained in such conveyances and grants; but where the said grantors or grantor at the time of such conveyances or grants were or was bare trustees or a bare trustee only of the premises thereby conveyed or granted, the word “grant” shall operate as and be construed and adjudged to be an express covenant with the grantees or grantee, their or his successors and assigns, by or from the grantors or grantor, their, his, or her heirs, executors, and administrators, that such grantors or grantor had done no act to incumber the premises thereby conveyed or granted: and the grantees or grantee, their or his successors and assigns, shall and may in all actions to be brought assign breach or breaches of covenant as they might do in case such covenants were expressly inserted in such conveyances and grants.
Textual Amendments
F4Ss. 23–25 and Schedule repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1964 (c. 79)
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