Harcourt Street Act 1777

Tenants successively to have for two months exclusive powers to take concurrent lease.

III. Provided also, That the immediate tenant or tenants first deriving under the said archbishop shall during the space of two months from the time of passing this act have the sole and exclusive power of taking any lease by virtue of this act, and that from and after the expiration of the said two months, so given to the tenant immediately holding under the said archbishop, the tenant next deriving under such immediate tenant for the space of two months immediately following shall have the like sole and exclusive power of taking such concurrent lease, if the first tenant shall refuse or neglect to take the same within the space of two months so given to him; and if at the end of four months from the passing of this act, neither the said first or second tenant shall have taken such concurrent lease, that then the third, fourth, and every other tenant shall have successively the like sole and exclusive power of taking such concurrent lease for the space of two months next after the expiration of the months, given as aforesaid to the person from whom he immediately derives.