APPENDIX X.
43 Geo. III, cap. 108.
CONVENIENCES.--Permits conveyance of site to any Body Political or Corporate.
--Contains no clause avoiding the conveyance if Service is discontinued for a time.
INCONVENIENCES.--Requires the concurrence of Ordinary.
--Will be avoided (unless made for valuable consideration) if grantor dies within three months.
--Must be strictly for a Church or Chapel.
--Must be enrolled within six months.
--No provision for grant by a person under disability, _e.g._, tenant for life.
_Place of Worship Sites" Act_.
36 & 37 Vict., cap. 50.
CONVENIENCES.--Enables tenant for life to convey.
--Does not require consent of Ordinary.
--Deed will not be avoided by death of grantor within twelve months after execution of it.
INCONVENIENCES.--Contains no power of conveyance to a Body Corporate except permission given to make Ecclesiastical Commissioners trustees of the site.
--Contains clauses involving the loss of the property, (_a_) if the land be used for any other purpose than that of a site for a place of worship; (_b_) if Service be discontinued in the place of worship for one year.
--May give difficulty as to consecration, if the Mission Room becomes a Church, owing to possible reversion to profane uses on the temporary discontinuance of Services.
School Sites" Act.
4 & 5 Vict., cap 38; 7 & 8 Vict., cap. 37.
CONVENIENCES.--Enable tenants for life to convey.
--Permit conveyance to Bodies Corporate making Minister and Churchwardens a corporation with perpetual succession for the purposes of these Acts.
INCONVENIENCES.--Contain clauses involving the loss of the property if used for other purposes than those of education.
--Require enrolment of deeds.
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Footnotes:
{2} _Smith"s Christian Antiquities_, i, 391; _Bingham"s Antiquities of the Christian Church_, B. ii, c. 19, sec. 19.
{4} 1 Will. and M., ch. 18, sec. 5; 31 Geo. III, ch. 32, sec. 7.
{5} See Appendix No. I.
{6} _Prideaux"s Churchwardens" Guide_, p. 17.
{7} 7 Gul. IV, and 1 Vict. cap. 45, sec 3. See Appendix No. II
{8a} 7 Gul. IV and 1 Vict., cap. 45, sec. 1, 2.
{8b} Note 58 Geo. III, c. 69, sec. 2.
{8c} See Appendix No. VI.
{9a} Phillimore II, 1470.
{9b} Dewdney _v._ Good referred to in _Addresses delivered to the Churchwardens and Sidesmen of the Diocese of Liverpool_, by Thomas E.
Espin, D.D., Chancellor of the Diocese. Liverpool: Holden, Church Street. p. 29.
{10a} See Appendix No. III.