Hallett Estate Act 1884
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1884 c. 3 |
| Year | 1884 |
[47 & 48 VICT.] Ealleti [OH. 5.]
CHAPTER 8.
An Act to confirm certain Leases Conveyances and Assign-
A.D.
1884
ment under the Will, of William Hallett Esquire deceased
and to give the Trustees powers of leasing and sale and
for other purposes. [14th July 1884.]
W
HEREAS William Hallett late of Brighton in the county of
Sussex deceased "being entitled at his death to the freehold
and leasehold hereditaments devised by him as herein-after recited
duly made his will dated the thirteenth day of March one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two and thereby directed that every devise
and bequest therein contained should be construed to give all the
estate and interest whatsoever that he should have in the thing de-
vised or bequeathed at the time of his decease unless such devise or
bequest should be by his will expressly limited and further he
directed that every bequest of leasehold estates therein-after contained
should be deemed and construed to be subject to the payment of all
rents and sums of money due and to accrue due in respect thereof
under the lease or demise thereof it being his intention that every
beneficial legatee of his will of leasehold estate should take the same
subject to all liabilities he or his estate should be under at the time
of his decease in respect thereof in order that the remainder of his
estate should be wholly free therefrom. And after reciting that he
had two children and no more. by his late wife Mary Ann Hallett
(that was to say) his eldest son William Henry Hallett who was his
heir apparent and his second son Frederick Erancis Hallett and that
he had from time to time made advances of money and property
to both of them his said two sons and for his said son Erederick
Erancis Hallett he had already made a sufficient provision and
after making pecuniary and specific bequests and devising as part
of his residuaiy estate a contingent interest to which he never
became entitled in a steam brewery and other property the testator
devised and bequeathed unto his said eldest son "William Henry
Hallett his wife Harriet Rebecca and his friends William Wilton
of Brighton aforesaid surgeon and Somers Clarke of the same
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[OH. 5.] Hallett's Estate Act, 1884. [47 & 48 VICT.]
A.D.
1884. place solicitor all his freehold estate land and premises called the
" Scabes Castle Farm " containing together eighty-seven acres or
thereabouts situate at Brighton aforesaid with the appurtenances
and also two pieces of freehold land situate near to and adjoining
the Extra Mural Burial Ground in Brighton aforesaid containing
together six acres one rood and thirty perches and also his freehold
estate containing fifty-four acres known as " the Enclosure " being
theretofore part of the Ancient Eastern Tenantry Down in Brighton
aforesaid situate north-east of the Queen's Park and also his
freehold estate containing twenty-eight acres situate in Brighton
aforesaid at the east side of and adjoining the road leading from
Bedford Street to the Bace Hill and theretofore part of the Ancient
Eastern Tenantry Down and also a piece of leasehold land containing
thirty-eight acres or thereabouts situate in the parish of Brighton
aforesaid with its appurtenances and held by the testator for the
residue of a term of ninety-nine years granted by the late Marquis
of Bristol and being part of a tract of land called the " White
Hawk " but subject as to twenty-two acres part of the said thirty-
eight acres to the lease therein-after mentioned to have been granted
to his said son Frederick Erancis Hallett and also a piece of building-
ground situate in Great College Street in Brighton aforesaid part
whereof was used as a garden with any messuages or buildings which
might be thereon at the time of his decease Together with the
land or ground as formed into the road or street and foot pavements
there To hold unto the said William Henry Hallett, Harriet
Bebecca Hallett, William Wilton and Somers Clarke Upon trust
to receive the rents issues and annual income thereof and after
payment thereout of all interest on mortgages thereon or on any
part thereof rent taxes insurance cost of repairs alterations
improvements and all other necessary outgoings relating to the
last-mentioned hereditaments and premises and the management
thereof to pay the balance of such rents issues and annual income
unto his said wife until the youngest of his six sons and daughters
by her namely Henry Bichard Ashmead, Annslee Ashmead, Jane
Ashmead, John, Alfred and George who should live to attain the
age of twenty-one years should attain that age if his said wife
should so long continue his widow and his said wife providing and
giving to her said children the benefit and comfort of a home and
maintaining educating and bringing up each and every of them
until they respectively attained the age of twenty-one years or
marriage under that age and the testator's will contained certain
provisions in case of the second marriage of his said wife (an event
which has not taken place) and subject to the trusts aforesaid
the said testator directed that the said trust estates and premises
should be held upon trust for his the testator's said son William
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