Real Property Act, 1845

Feoffments, partitions, exchanges, leases, assignments, and surrenders (subject to certain exceptions) to be by deed.

Proviso.

3. [2] A feoffment made after the said first day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, other than a feoffment made under a custom by an infant, shall be void at law, unless evidenced by deed; and a partition and an exchange of any tenements or hereditaments, not being copyhold, and a lease, required by law to be in writing, of any tenements or hereditaments, and an assignment of a chattel interest, not being copyhold, in any tenements or hereditaments, and a surrender in writing of an interest in any tenements or hereditaments, not being a copyhold interest, and not being an interest which might by law have been created without writing, made after the said first day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, shall also be void at law, unless made by deed: Provided always, that the said enactment, so far as the same relates to a release or a surrender, shall not extend to Ireland.

[2 Section 3, so far as the same refers to the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland, is rep., save so far as same relates to feoffments, partitions, and exchanges, 23 & 24 Vict. c. 154 s. 104.]