Churchwardens' Manual Part 4

APPENDIX X.

43 Geo. III, cap. 108.

CONVENIENCES.--Permits conveyance of site to any Body Political or Corporate.

--Contains no clause avoiding the conveyance if Service is discontinued for a time.

INCONVENIENCES.--Requires the concurrence of Ordinary.

--Will be avoided (unless made for valuable consideration) if grantor dies within three months.

--Must be strictly for a Church or Chapel.

--Must be enrolled within six months.

--No provision for grant by a person under disability, _e.g._, tenant for life.

_Place of Worship Sites' Act_.

36 & 37 Vict., cap. 50.

CONVENIENCES.--Enables tenant for life to convey.

--Does not require consent of Ordinary.

--Deed will not be avoided by death of grantor within twelve months after execution of it.

INCONVENIENCES.--Contains no power of conveyance to a Body Corporate except permission given to make Ecclesiastical Commissioners trustees of the site.

--Contains clauses involving the loss of the property, (_a_) if the land be used for any other purpose than that of a site for a place of worship; (_b_) if Service be discontinued in the place of worship for one year.

--May give difficulty as to consecration, if the Mission Room becomes a Church, owing to possible reversion to profane uses on the temporary discontinuance of Services.

School Sites' Act.

4 & 5 Vict., cap 38; 7 & 8 Vict., cap. 37.

CONVENIENCES.--Enable tenants for life to convey.

--Permit conveyance to Bodies Corporate making Minister and Churchwardens a corporation with perpetual succession for the purposes of these Acts.

INCONVENIENCES.--Contain clauses involving the loss of the property if used for other purposes than those of education.

--Require enrolment of deeds.

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Footnotes:

{2} _Smith's Christian Antiquities_, i, 391; _Bingham's Antiquities of the Christian Church_, B. ii, c. 19, sec. 19.

{4} 1 Will. and M., ch. 18, sec. 5; 31 Geo. III, ch. 32, sec. 7.

{5} See Appendix No. I.

{6} _Prideaux's Churchwardens' Guide_, p. 17.

{7} 7 Gul. IV, and 1 Vict. cap. 45, sec 3. See Appendix No. II

{8a} 7 Gul. IV and 1 Vict., cap. 45, sec. 1, 2.

{8b} Note 58 Geo. III, c. 69, sec. 2.

{8c} See Appendix No. VI.

{9a} Phillimore II, 1470.

{9b} Dewdney _v._ Good referred to in _Addresses delivered to the Churchwardens and Sidesmen of the Diocese of Liverpool_, by Thomas E.

Espin, D.D., Chancellor of the Diocese. Liverpool: Holden, Church Street. p. 29.

{10a} See Appendix No. III.