New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOORE-STREET IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1890 - SECT 20

20 Parties under disability enabled to sell and convey and exercise other powers

It shall be lawful for all parties being seized, possessed of, or entitled to any such lands or any estate or interest therein to sell and convey or release the same to the Council, and to enter into all necessary agreements for that purpose, and particularly it shall be lawful for all or any of the following parties so seized, possessed, or entitled as aforesaid, so to sell, convey, or release, that is to say,-all corporations, tenants in tail or for life, married women seized in their own right or entitled to dower, guardians, committees of lunatics, and idiots’ trustees, or feoffees in trust for charitable or other purposes, executors and administrators, and all parties for the time being entitled to the receipt of the rents and profits of any such lands in possession or subject to any estate in dower, or to any lease for life or for lives and years or for years, or any less interest, and the power so to sell and convey or release as aforesaid may lawfully be exercised by all such parties other than married women entitled to dower or lessees for life or for lives and years or for years, or for any less interest, not only on behalf of themselves and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, and successors, but also for and on behalf of every person entitled in reversion, remainder, or expectancy after them or in defeasance of the estates of such parties, and as to such married women, whether they be of full age or not, as if they were sole and of full age, and as to such guardians on behalf of their wards, and as to such committees on behalf of the lunatics and idiots of whom they are the committees, respectively, and that to the same extent as such wives, wards, lunatics, and idiots, respectively, could have exercised the same power under the authority of this Act if they had respectively been under no disability; and, as to such trustees, executors, or administrators, on behalf of their cestuique trusts, whether infants, issue unborn, lunatics, femes covert, or other persons, and that to the same extent as such cestuique trusts, respectively, could have exercised the same powers under the authority of this Act, if they had respectively been under no disability, and the power hereinafter given to release lands from any rent-charge or incumbrance and to agree for the appointment of any such rent-charge or incumbrance shall extend to and may lawfully be exercised by every party hereinbefore enabled to sell and convey or release land to the Council.