Powers of Trustees, Mortgagees, etc. Act 1860

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Powers of Trustees, Mortgagees, etc. Act 1860
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to give to Trustees, Mortgagees, and others certain Powers now commonly inserted in Settlements, Mortgages, and Wills.
Citation23 & 24 Vict c 145
Territorial extentDid not extend to Scotland.[1]
Dates
Royal assent28 August 1860
Status: Repealed

The Powers of Trustees, Mortgagees, etc. Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict c 145), sometimes referred to as the Lord Cranworth's Act 1860,[2] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The Act sought to formalise and regularise various provisions commonly included by chancery lawyers of the day in mortgages, wills and other settlements.

It is the first statute in English law to refer to receivers.[2] It was sponsored by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth.

Most of its provisions were repealed by the . Parts I and IV (being so much of the Act as was not repealed by the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881) were repealed by section 64(1) of, and the Schedule to, the Settled Land Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict c 38), with savings in section 64(2).[3]

References[]

  • Halsbury's Statutes,
  • Langley, Albert Gordon. A Reading of the Act 23 & 24 Vict cap 145. London. 1861. See catalogues such as Horace Cox and Faculty of Advocates. Reviewed at (1862) 37 The Law Times 332. Serialised at (1861) 36 The Law Times 2, 28, 68, 80, 103, 115, 186, 318, 332, 344, 402, 427, 438, 501, 523, 583, 593.
  • "Art VIII - Lord Cranworth's Trustees and Mortgagees Act" (1860) 10 Law Magazine and Law Review 118
  • "The Trustees and Mortgagees Act (23 & 24 Vic c 145)" (1861) 1 Law Students' Examination Chronicle 70
  • Carson and Bompas. "Trustees and Mortgagees Act". Shelford's Real Property Statutes. Ninth Edition. Sweet and Maxwell. Stevens and Sons. London. 1893. Pages 558 to 565. Carson. Eighth Edition. 1874. Pages 731 to 741. Shelford, Leonard. The Real Property Statutes. Seventh Edition. 1863. Pages 699 to 708.
  • Paterson, William (ed). "Trustees, Mortgagees, &c Act". The Practical Statutes of the Session 1860. John Crockford. London. 1860. Pages 377 to 387.
  1. ^ 23 & 24 Vict c 145 (1860), section 35
  2. ^ a b Medforth v Blake [2000] Ch 86 at 93H, per Scott V-C.
  3. ^ The Public General Acts


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