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Part I General Preliminary Provisions
8. Mode and costs of conveyance, and saving of rights of personal representatives and equitable chargees.
9. Procedure in the case of settlements and of instruments deemed to be trust instruments.
10. Procedure on acquisition of land to be made subject to a settlement.
13. Dispositions not to take effect until vesting instrument is made.
Restrictions on dispositions of Settled Land where Trustees have not been Discharged
Part II Powers of a Tenant for Life
49. Power on dispositions to impose restrictions and make reservations and stipulations.
50. Separate dealing with surface and minerals, with or without wayleaves, &c.
57. Provision of land for small dwellings, small holdings and dwellings for working classes.
58. Power to compromise claims and release restrictions, &c.
59. Power to vary leases and grants and to give licences and consents.
64. General power for the tenant for life to effect any transaction under an order of the court.
Part III Investment or other application of Capital Money
75. Regulations respecting investment, devolution, and income of securities, &c.
75A. Power to accept charge as security for part payment for land sold.
76. Application of money in court under Lands Clauses and other Acts.
77. Application of money in hands of trustees under powers of settlement.
78. Provision as to personal estate settled by reference to capital money, or on trusts corresponding with the limitations of land.
80. As to money received by way of damages for breach of covenant.
82. Land acquired may be made a substituted security for released charges.
Part VII Restrictions, Savings, and Protection of Purchasers
103. Legal estate in settled land not to vest in trustee in bankruptcy of estate owner.
104. Powers not assignable, and contract not to exercise powers void.
105. Effect of surrender of life estate to the next remainderman.
106. Prohibition or limitation against exercise of powers void, and provision against forfeiture.
109. Saving for additional or larger powers under settlement.
111. Purchaser of beneficial interest of tenant for life to have remedies of a legal owner.
Part VIII Court, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Procedure
Form No. 1 Vesting Deed for giving effect to a Settlement subsisting at the Commencement of this Act
This Vesting Deed is made [&c.] between X. of [&c.]...
[Recite the Settlement under which T.L. is a tenant for...
Now for giving effect to the requirements of the Settled...
Form No. 2 Vesting Deed on the Settlement of Land
This Vesting Deed made [&c.] between John H. of [&c.]...
Witnesseth and it is hereby declared as follows:—
Form No. 3 Trust Instrument of the Settlement of Land
This Trust Instrument is made [&c.] between John H. of...
Whereas by a deed (herinafter called the Vesting Deed) bearing...
Now in consideration of the intended marriage between the Settlor...
Form No. 4 Subsidiary Vesting Deed on Sale when the Land is Purchased with Capital Money
This Subsidiary Vesting Deed is made [&c.] betweenHenry V. of...
Whereas the Vendor is entitled for an estate in fee...
And whereas by a principal vesting deed (hereinafter called the...
Now this Deed witnesseth as follows:—
Part I Improvements, the costs of which are not liable to be replaced by Instalments
(i).Drainage, including the straightening, widening, or deepening of drains, streams,...
(iv).Drains, pipes, and machinery for supply and distribution of sewage...
(vii).Inclosing; straightening of fences; re-division of fields:
(ix).Farm roads; private roads; roads or streets in villages or...
(xi).Cottages for labourers, farm-servants, and artisans, employed on the settled...
(xii).Farmhouses, offices, and outbuildings, and other buildings for farm purposes:...
(xiii).Saw-mills, scutch-mills, and other mills, water-wheels, engine-houses, and kilns, which...
(xiv).Reservoirs, tanks, conduits, watercourses, pipes, wells, ponds, shafts, dams, weirs,...
(xvi).Jetties, piers, and landing places on rivers, lakes, the sea,...
(xviii).Streets, roads, paths, squares, gardens, or other open spaces for...
(xix).Sewers, drains, watercourses, pipe-making, fencing, paving, brick-making, tile-making, and other...
(xx).Trial pits for mines, and other preliminary works necessary or...
(xxi).Reconstruction, enlargement, or improvement of any of those works:
(xxii).The provision of small dwellings, either by means of building...
(xxiii).Additions to or alterations in buildings reasonably necessary or proper...
(xxiv).Erection of buildings in substitution for buildings within an urban...
(xxv).The rebuilding of the principal mansion house on the settled...
(i).Residential houses for land or mineral agents, managers, clerks, bailiffs,...
(ii).Any offices, workshops and other buildings of a permanent nature...
(iii).The erection and building of dwelling houses, shops, buildings for...
(iv).Restoration or reconstruction of buildings damaged or destroyed by dry...
(v).Structural additions to or alterations in buildings reasonably required, whether...
(vi).Boring for water and other preliminary works in connexion therewith....
Retrospective Amendments of the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890
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