Metropolitan Interments Act: 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix

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Shaw, 1850 - 76 pages

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Page 71 - I AB of in consideration of the sum of pounds paid to me by CD of do hereby transfer to the said CD the share [or shares] numbered standing in my name in the books of...
Page 70 - Commissioners by AB of for the purposes of the said Act, do grant and assign unto the said AB, his executors, administrators, and assigns, such proportion of the rates...
Page 14 - Act ; and every Person who shall after such Time as aforesaid bury any Body, or in anywise act or assist in the Burial of any Body, in any...
Page 49 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 22 - ... every person who shall bury or perform any funeral or any religious service for the burial of any dead body, for which no certificate shall have been duly made and delivered as aforesaid...
Page 64 - Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number : Words importing the masculine gender shall include females : The word
Page 62 - ... with the consent of the vestry, or persons possessing the powers of vestry for ecclesiastical purposes of or in such parish, and of the bishop of the diocese, to convey any chapel belonging to such parish, and situate in or attached to such burial ground, and the site thereof, to any persons named by the incumbent and churchwardens of the parish within which the same is situate...
Page 73 - ... and when received, and to whom and when paid, in the Form (T.) in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like effect...
Page 15 - Lieutenant a may think fit ; but such licence shall not prejudice or in anywise affect the authority of the ordinary or of any other person who if this act had not been passed might have prohibited or controlled interment under such right, nor dispense with any consent which would have been required...
Page 60 - ... shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser of any such lands for the purchase money in such receipt expressed to be received.

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