The Ramsden Estate: enlarging the power in Sir John Ramsden will to grant leases of hereditaments in Huddersfield, Honley, Dalton and Almondbury [Yorkshire] Act 1844
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1844 c. 21 |
| Year | 1844 |
ANNO SEPTIMO & OCTAVO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
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Cap.
21.
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An Act for enlarging the Powers contained in the
Will of Sir John Ramsden Baronet, deceased, to
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grant Leases of the Hereditaments in the Town-
ships of Huddersfield, Honley, Dalton> and
Almondbury, devised by such Will; and for other
Purposes. [6th August 1844.]
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HERE AS Sir John Ramsden, late of By ram in the County will of
Sir
of York, Baronet* deceased, made his Will in Writing, John Rams-
dated on on about the Twenty-sixth Day of January One en> Bart»»
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and duly executed and Tatedif3gh
attested, and thereby, after giving the Estate and Interest of the said
Testator in one Forty-eighth Part or Share of the Witton Estates,
therein referred to, to the Uses therein mentioned, gave, devised, and
appointed all his Manors, Rectories, Advowsons, Tithes, Mansion
House, Capital and other Messuages, Parks, Farms, Lands, Canals,
Rivers, Wharfs, Quays, Docks, and the Ground and Soil
thereof,
Rents,
Tenements, and Hereditaments, whatsoever and wheresoever,
as well those at any Time theretofore purchased by the said Testator
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as those which he had acquired by Descent or in any other Manner,
and which were of Freehold or of the Nature of Freehold Tenure)
and all other the Freehold Hereditaments, whatsoever and whereso-
ever, of, to, or in which he was seised, entitled, or interested, at
Law or in Equity, whether in possession, reversion, remainder, or
expectancy, and which he the said Testator had Power to dispose
of by that his Will, (other than and except his Estate or Interest in
the said one Forty-eighth Part or Share of the Witton Estates, therein-
before devised,) and also except his the said Testator's Reversion in
Fee in the Ramsden Family Estates comprised in the Marriage Set-.
tlements respectively made on his the said Testator's own Marriage
and the Marriage of his eldest Son John Charles Ramsden, then
lately deceased, and all Estates and Hereditaments held by him the
said Testator on a Lease or Leases for Lives, and also such other
Hereditaments as were vested in him the said Testator as a Trustee
or Mortgagee unto the Right Honourable Charles William Earl Fitz-
William and Philip Davies Cooke Esquire, and their Heirs, to hold the
same unto the said Charles William Earl Fitzwilliam and Philip
Davies Cooke, and their Heirs, to the Use of William Thomas Spencer
Wentworth Esquire, commonly Called Lord Viscount Milton, eldest
Son of the said Charles William Earl Fitzwilliam, and Sir Edward
Vavasour Baronet, their Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for
the Term of One thousand Years, to be computed from the Time of
the said Testator's Decease, without Impeachment of Waste, but
upon the Trust and subject to the Proviso therein-after declared con-
cerning the same; and from and after the Expiration or Cesser of
the same Term, and in the meantime subject thereto and to the
Trust therein-before referred to, to the Use, Intent, and Purpose that
the Honourable Isabella Ramsden, the Widow and Relict of the said
Testator's said Son John Charles Ramsden deceased, and her Assigns,
should yearly have, receive, and take for her natural Life One yearly
Rent-charge of One thousand four hundred Pounds, to be yearly
issuing and payable out of and charged and chargeable upon the
Hereditaments thereby devised as aforesaid, in addition to the Join-
ture provided for her by the Settlement made on her Marriage with
the said Testator's lately deceased Son, to be paid as in the said Will
now in recital is mentioned, with Powers of Distress and Entry for
recovering and enforcing Payment
thereof;
and as for and concerning
all the said Testator's Hereditaments, Estates, and Premises therein-
before devised as aforesaid, subject to and charged with the said yearly
Sum of One thousand four hundred Pounds, and the Remedies for
the Recovery
thereof,
to the Use of the Right Honourable Edward
William Harvey Lord Hawke and George Lane Fox Esquire, their
Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for the Term of Ninety-nine
Years thence next ensuing, without Impeachment of or for any
Manner of Waste, upon the Trusts
and^
subject to the Proviso therein-
after expressed concerning the same Term ; and after the Expiration,*
or Cesser of the said Term of Ninety-nine Years, and in the me#n^
time subject thereto and to the Trusts
thereof,
and charged and
chargeable as aforesaid, to the Use of John William. Ramsden (the
only Son of the said John Charles Ramsden deceased), now Sir John
William Ramsden Baronet, for his natural Life, subject to Impeach-
ment of Waste; with Remainder to the Use of the said Charles Wil-
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