Powers of re

tended to

concerning the character, conduct, credit, ability, trade, or dealings of any other person, to the intent that such other person may obtain credit, money, or goods upon, unless such representation be made in writing, signed by the party to be charged therewith.

6. The enactments of the Statutes of Frauds recited acts ex-lating to the sale of goods of the value of L.10 and contracts for upwards, extended to all contracts for the sale of goods of L.10 goods of the value of L.10 and upwards, notwithor upwards, standing the goods may be intended to be delivered at some future time, or may not, at the time of such contract, be actually made, procured, or provided, or fit or ready for delivery, or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery.

although the goods be not ready for delivery.

7. Memorandums made necessary by the act are exempted from stamp-duty.

CHAPTER VI.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.

Apportionment of Rents, &c.

4th WILLIAM IV., cap. 22.-[Royal Assent, June 16, 1834.]

An Act to amend an Act of the eleventh year of King George the Second, respecting the Apportionment of Rents, Annuities, and other periodical Pay

ments.

Sec. 1. Rents reserved and made payable on any lease which shall determine on the death of the person making the same, or on the death of the lives for which such person was entitled, shall be considered as within the provisions of the 11th Geo. II.

2. All rents service reserved on any lease granted after the passing of the act by a tenant in fee, or for life, or under a power, and all rents charge, and other rents, annuities, pensions, dividends, moduses, compositions, and all other payments of every description in Great Britain and Ireland, made payable, or coming due at fixed periods, under any instrument, executed, or (in the case of a will) coming into operation after the passing of the act, shall be apportioned, so that on the determination, by death or any other means, of the interest of such person, he, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall be entitled to a proportion of such payments, subject to a proportion of the charges thereon,

and all remedies for recovering the same when the whole shall become due, but so that as to rents reserved by any demise, the person who, if the act had not passed, would have been entitled to receive the whole amount, shall still receive the same, and the proportion shall be recovered from such person.

3. Act not to apply where it is stipulated that there shall be no apportionment, or to annual sums made payable in policies of assurance.

Dealings with Bankrupts.

2d and 3d VICTORIA, cap. 29.-[Royal Assent, July 19, 1839.]

An Act for the better Protection of Parties dealing with persons liable to the Bankrupt Laws.

Sec. 1. All contracts, dealings, and transactions by and with any bankrupt, and all executions and attachments executed or levied before the date and issuing of the fiat, shall, notwithstanding a prior act of bankruptcy, be valid in favour of those who had not notice of any prior act of bankruptcy, saving any payment being a fraudulent preference, or any execution on warrants of attorney or cognovits, given by way of fraudulent preference.

Boundaries of Church Property.

2d and 3d WILLIAM ÏV., cap. 80.-August 3, 1832. An Act to authorize the Identifying of Lands and other Possessions of certain Ecclesiastical and Collegiate Corporations.

Sec. 1. Power given to archbishops, bishops, deans, and chapters, and colleges of Oxford, Cambridge, Winchester, and Eton, to enter into agreements or deeds of reference with their lessees and others whose lands are adjoining, to ascertain and settle unknown or disputed boundaries, or quantities of their manors, &c.

Referees to make surveys, maps, and admeasurements, to examine witnesses on oath, to call for deeds, &c., to make awards, with maps thereto, on

parchment or vellum. Awards and maps to be laid before parties, and their approbation written.

2. Consent of archbishop in case of bishops, of chapter in case of deans, and bishops in case of ecclesiastical corporations sole, required to render proceedings under the act valid.

3. Power to infants, married women, lunatics, &c., to enter into reference.

4. Agreements or deeds of reference, awards, and maps, to be deposited in the registry of the archbishop, bishop, &c. Documents to be produced.

5. Expenses of reference shall be paid equally, unless parties otherwise agree.

6. Act limited to England and Wales.

Payment of Debts out of Real Estates. 11th GEORGE IV., and 1st WILLIAM IV., cap 47. [Royal Assent, July 16, 1830.]

An Act for Consolidating and Amending the Laws for Facilitating the Payment of Debts out of Real Estates.

Sec. 1. Repeal of the statute 3d and 4th William and Mary, cap. 14; Irish statute, 4th Anne, cap. 5; and 47th George III., cap. 74.

2. All wills and testamentary limitations, dispositions, or appointments of lands, &c., of persons dying after the passing of the act, shall be void against persons with whom the testator has entered into any bond, covenant, or other specialty binding heirs.

3. Creditors may maintain actions of debt or covenant upon bonds, covenants, and specialties, against the heirs and devisees of the obligor or covenantor, or their devisees jointly.

4. Where there shall be no heir, actions may be maintained against the devisee solely.

5. The act not to affect limitations for payment of debts, or portions for children, in pursuance of any antenuptial marriage-contract in writing.

6. Heir selling lands before action brought shall be liable in an action of debt, or covenant, to the

• Sic.

value of such lands, but the lands shall not be liable to execution.

7. Where an action of debt or covenant is brought against the heir, he may plead riens, per descent. 8. Devisees to be liable the same as heir, though land may be aliened before action brought.

9. Traders' real estates to be assets, to be administered in courts of equity, and the heir and devisee of such traders shall be liable at the suit of simple contract creditors, as well as of specialty creditors, who shall still retain their priority.

10. Parol not to demur in suits by or against infants.

11. Infants, heirs, or devisees, shall convey, under order of a court of equity, lands decreed to be sold, [or mortgaged,]m for the payment of debts, [or a single debt.]"

12. Where, by a devise, lands shall be vested in any persons for life or other limited interest, with any remainder, limitation, or gift, over which may be vested in some person from whom a conveyance cannot be obtained, or, by way of executory devise, and a decree shall be made for the sale thereof, for the payment of debts, the person having the limited estate may convey the fee.

13. Act not to repeal the Irish statute, 33d George I., (meaning George II., cap. 14,) relating to debts due by bankers.

Charge of Simple Contract Debts on Real Estate. 3d and 4th WILLIAM IV., cap. 104.-[Royal Assent, August 29, 1833.]

An Act to render Freehold and Copyhold Estates Assets for the Payment of Simple and Contract Debts. Sec. 1. That, after the passing of this act, when any person shall die, seised of, or entitled to, any estate, or interest in lands, tenements, or heredita.

m2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 60.

Scholfield v. Heafield, 8 Sim. 470.