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If at the Time of the Commutation or Enfranchisement of any Lands there shall be any Lease subsisting therein, the Person seised of or entitled to such Lands shall have the Reversion on that Lease, and may distrain for the Rents and enforce the Covenants, &c.
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X. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if at the Time of any Commutation or Enfranchisement under the said Act or under this Act of any Lands there shall be subsisting in such Lands any Lease (not being an Under-lease), then the Lessee under such Lease, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, shall pay, observe, and keep to and with the Person for the Time being seised of or entitled to the Lands so commuted or enfranchised, and his Executors or Administrators, the Rent, Reservations, Covenants, Conditions, and Agreements respectively reserved and contained in such Lease, or such and so many or such Part of the Rent, Reservations, Covenants, Conditions, and Agreements respectively reserved and contained an such Lease, as are or ought to be thenceforth respectively paid, observed, and kept in respect of the Lands so commuted or enfranchised; and the Person for the Time being seised of or entitled to the Lands so commuted or enfranchised shall and may from Time to Time make or bring all such Distresses, Actions, Suits, or Entries for Nonpayment of such Rent or Reservations, or for Non-performance of the Covenants, Conditions, and Agreements in such Lease respectively reserved and contained, as could have been made or brought by the Person who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Lands so commuted or enfranchised in case such Commutation or Enfranchisement had not been made; and in all such Distresses, Actions, Suits, and Entries the Rents or Reservations, Covenants, Conditions, and Agreements in such Lease reserved and contained on the Part of the Lessee, his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns shall be deemed and taken to be annexed to an immediate Reversion vested in the Person for the Time being seised of or entitled to the Lands so commuted or enfranchised.
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