Act. Extent of Repeal. Page in Student's Statutes. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 66...... So much of sect. 5 as provides that no puisne 36 & 37 Vict. c. 67...... 37 & 38 Vict. c. 33...... 37 & 38 Vict. c. 78...... 39 & 40 Vict. c. 30...... judge or baron shall be appointed while the number of such exceeds twelve. Subsect. 1 of sect. 25. So much of sects. 3 and 16 as relates to the London Court of Bankruptcy. Sects. 6, 9, 10, 20, 21, and 35. So much of sect. 13 as relates to additional judges of the Court of Appeal. Sub-sects. 3 and 4 of sect. 34 relating to the London Court of Bankruptcy. Sects. 40-44 (both inclusive), and 46, so far as inconsistent with the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876. Sects. 48, 53, 54, 55, 63, 68-74 (both inclusive), and the whole of the Schedule ...... 126-143 The whole..... The whole.. Sects. 5 and 7 The whole... X 99 93 THE STUDENT'S STATUTES FOR 1877. SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE ACT, 1877. 40 Vict. c. 9. By this Act power is given to Her Majesty to appoint an additional judge of the High Court of Justice. Such judge to be in the same position as if he had been appointed a puisne judge of the High Court under the Judicature Acts, and (subject to power of transfer) to be attached to the Chancery Division. It is also enacted that the ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal shall be styled "Lords Justices of Appeal," and the judges of the High Court of Justice (other than the Presidents of Divisions) shall be styled "Justices of the High Court." LAW OF EVIDENCE AMENDMENT ACT. 40 & 41 Vict. c. 14. On the trial of any indictment or other proceeding for the non-repair of any public highway or bridge, or for a nuisance to any public highway, river, or bridge, and of any other indictment or proceeding instituted for the purpose of trying or enforcing a civil right only, every defendant to such indictment or proceeding, and the wife or husband of any such defendant, shall be admissible witnesses and compellable to give evidence. THE SETTLED ESTATES ACT, 1877. 40 & 41 Vict. c. 18. (a) SECT. 3. Matters under this Act, are, subject to the Judicature Acts, assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. 4. The Court may, if it shall deem it proper and consistent with a due regard for the interests of all parties entitled under the settlement, and subject to the provisions and restrictions in this Act contained, authorise leases of any settled estates, or of any rights or privileges over or affecting any settled estates, for any purpose whatsoever, whether involving waste or not, provided the following conditions be observed: 1. Every such lease shall be made to take effect in possession at or within one year next after the making thereof, and shall be for a term of years not exceeding for an agricultural or occupation lease twenty-one years, and for a mining lease, or a lease of water mills, way leaves, water leaves, or other rights or easements, forty years, and for a repairing lease sixty years, and for a building lease ninety-nine years. Proviso: Any such lease (except an agricultural lease) may be for such term of years as the Court shall direct, where the Court shall be satisfied that it is the usual custom of the district, and beneficial to the inheritance, to grant such a lease for a longer term. 2. On every such lease shall be reserved the best rent or reservation in the nature of rent, either uniform or not, that can be reasonably obtained, to be made payable half-yearly or oftener without taking any fine or other benefit in the nature of a fine. Proviso: In the case of a mining lease, a repairing lease, or a building lease, a peppercorn rent, or any smaller rent than the rent to be ultimately made payable, may, if the Court shall so direct, be made payable during all or any part of the first five years of the term. 3. Where the lease is of any earth, coal, stone, or mineral, a certain portion of the whole rent or payment reserved shall be from time to time set aside and invested as hereinafter mentioned; namely, when and so long as the person for the time being entitled to the receipt of such rent is a person who, (a) Repealing the 19 & 20 Vict. c. 120, and amending Acts. |