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Power of making lease.
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2. Every person herein-after described entitled in possession to any estate or interest herein-after specified in lands in Ireland, or to the receipt of the income thereof, whether or not such estate or interest shall be subject to any mortgage or other incumbrance (provided the mortgagee or incumbrancer shall not be in possession), shall have power to make leases of any part of the said lands (other than the mansion house and demesne or pleasure grounds usually occupied with such mansion house), and not exceeding in the whole one statute acre for the purposes and periods of time and subject to the covenants and condition herein-after provided (that is to say):
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(a.) Her Majesty the Queen and her successors and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests:
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(b.) Tenants in fee simple or fee farm, or in tail general or special, or in quasi entail:
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(c.) Tenants for their own lives or pur autre vie:
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(d.) Married women entitled to any estate above described under letters (a.), (b.), and (c.) for their separate use, and whether restrained or not from anticipation:
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(e.) Tenants by the courtesy of England:
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(f.) Husbands seized in right of their wives or by entireties with their wives, provided every such wife shall be a concurring party in any lease under their act:
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(g.) Corporations lay, eleemosynary, and collegiate, whether aggregate or sole:
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(h.) Trustees of charities or for public purposes, provided any lease to be made by any such trustees under this Act shall be approved of under the seal of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland:
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(i.) Trustees under any will or settlement, provided that no lease to be made under this Act by any such trustees shall be valid without the consent in writing of any person whose consent may be requisite under such will or settlement to the exercise of any power of sale or exchange or any leasing power therein contained.
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