Cork Infirmary Act 1751

Said trustees may without licence in mortmain purchase lands, &c. not above 1000 1 a year in the whole;

or any personal estate, for enlarging the house, and relief of the infirm.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees for the said infirmary shall and may without licence in mortmain purchase, take, or receive any manors, lands, tenements, annuities, or hereditaments, in possession, reversion, or contingency, not exceeding the value of one thousand pounds a year in the whole, of the alienation, gift, or devise of any person or person having a right, and not being otherwise disabled to alien, grant, or devise the same, (who are hereby enabled to transfer and grant the same accordingly) or any goods, chattels, and personal estate whatsoever, as well for enlarging the said house, as for the relief, support, and maintenance of the maimed, sick, and infirm persons, who are to receive the benefit of the said infirmary.