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Power to the Person having a particular Estate in an annual Rent to apportion the same.
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IV. And be it enacted, That if, at any Time while an annual Rent shall remain charged on any Lands under this Act, the Person for the Time being seised in Possession of such annual Rent or entitled to the Receipt thereof shall be so seised or entitled for a particular Estate, (whether such Estate shall have been subsisting at the Time of the Enfranchisement such Estate Lands or not,) then it shall be lawful for such Person, whether he shall be so seised or entitled in actual Possession or in Remainder or Reversion expectant on the Determination of any Estate for a Term of Years, to divide and apportion such annual Rent, and to declare what Part and Proportion thereof shall be thenceforth severally charged upon each of the respective Parcels of such Lands between which such Apportionment is intended to be made; and after such Apportionment such annual Rent shall be chargeable upon and payable out of such Lands only, and in such Parts and Proportions only as shall be so declared: Provided nevertheless that it shall not be lawful for any Person so seised or entitled as aforesaid in respect of an undivided Share only of such annual Rent to divide and apportion such annual Rent, unless the Person for the Time being enabled either by this Act or otherwise to divide and apportion the same as respite the other undivided Share thereof shall join in dividing and apportioning such annual Rent.
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