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Bill Number | 2999 | Session | 1779 |
Title |
For the relief of tenants holding under leases for lives containing covenants for perpetual renewals. |
Variant Title(s) |
To remove doubts concerning the construction of covenants for perpetual renewals, contained in leases for lives renewable. [15 May] |
Heads of Bill Stages |
Originating Body |
Commons |
Leave or Order |
15 May 1780 | Leave or Order to |
Mr Grattan |
[0895] |
Read & Committed |
30 May 1780 | Presented by |
Mr Grattan |
[0895] |
Reported |
13 Jun 1780 | Reported by |
Mr Tydd |
[2117] |
Sent to Chief Governor |
13 Jun 1780 | |
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Privy Council Stages |
Decision of the Irish Privy Council |
Approved | |
Received & Referred to Law Officers | 6 Jul 1780 | |
Petition to English Privy Council |
– | |
Decision of the English Privy Council |
Amended | |
Engrossed |
28 Jul 1780 | |
Returned Bill Stages |
House Presented |
Commons | |
Presented |
8 Aug 1780 | |
Sent to Other House |
12 Aug 1780 | |
Royal Assent |
2 Sep 1780 | |
Statute Number |
19 & 20 George III c.30 |
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English Privy Council Records:
- Report of attorney general to EPC committee.* 17 July 1780. (PC 1/12/26).
Report of attorney general and Mr James Mansfield on the petitions against and in support of bill.* 17 July 1780. (PC 1/12/26).
Report of attorney general to EPC committee.* 27 July 1780. (PC 1/12/27).
Privy Council Notes:
- Petition of Right Honourable Arthur Sanders Gore, earl of Arran, and others (PC 2/125, p. 240, 13 July 1780).
Memorial of several tenants in Ireland holding under leases for lives, containing covenants for perpetual renewals (PC 2/125, p. 240, 13 July 1780).
Counsel for petitioners heard. Ordered that 'Mr Attorney General, who was present, do take back the asid bill, and do consider of the objections which have been stated to this committee by the counsel against the same, and do report his opinion, what amendments may be necessary to be made in the said bill.' (PC 2/125, p. 278, 22 July 1780).
Extant Copies:
- ESTCT9704
PERSONAL AUTHOR: Sefton, Charles William Molyneux, Earl of, 1748-1795.
TITLE: Some thoughts on the Bill for the relief of tenants holding leases for lives, renewable for ever. Addressed to Lord Lifford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
IMPRINT: Dublin : printed for Elizabeth Lynch, 1780. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: [4],44p. ; 8°.
NOTES: Signed at the end: Mollineux, i.e. Charles William Molyneux, Earl of Sefton.
With a half-title.
With a copy of the Bill.
MICROFILM: Microfilm. New Haven, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1976. 1 reel ; 35mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 1174, no. 11983.9).
MICROFILM: Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of Gale Group. 2001. 1 reel ; 35 mm. Unit 347. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 12127, no. 56).
Subject:
Committee:
Committee of the Whole House
Procedural Features: Division; Protest; Later Petition; Printed Comments on Procedural Features:
Printed: 30 May 1778.
Later petitions: 3, 6, 8 June, 14, 15 Aug. 1778.
Divisions: 2 June, 8, 11, 16, 18 Aug. 1778.
Protest: 19 Aug. 1778. |
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