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LANDED ESTATES COURT ACT 1866

LANDED ESTATES COURT ACT 1866 - LONG TITLE

An Act to reduce the Number of Judges in the Landed Estates Court
in Ireland, and to reduce the Duties payable under the Record of
Title and Land Debentures Acts.{1}
[10th August 1866]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893

Ss.13 rep. by SLR 1893

LANDED ESTATES COURT ACT 1866 - SECT 4
Rates of duty on sales, &c.

4. The several duties set out in the schedule hereto shall be
levied and paid; ....

LANDED ESTATES COURT ACT 1866 - SECT 5
Land debentures to be deemed mortgages.

5. ... No certificate under that Act shall be deemed to be a deed
within the meaning of the Stamp Acts. A debenture under the said
Act shall be deemed to be a mortgage for the amount of the
principal money thereby secured, and a transfer of a debenture shall
be deemed to be a transfer of a mortgage, and the Court shall
frame and promulgate such rules and directions as it shall consider
expedient for securing the payment of the transfer duty: Provided,
that where on the original making and issuing of any debenture the
same shall be stamped with a duty of [20p] for every hundred
pounds and also for any fractional part of one hundred pounds of
the principal money thereby secured, then every transfer thereafter
made of such debenture shall be exempt from the stamp duty which
would otherwise be payable in respect of the transfer.

Ss.613 rep. by SLR 1893

LANDED ESTATES COURT ACT 1866 - SECT 14
Short title and construction.

14. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Landed Estates
Court Act, 1866"; and in construing it the same meanings shall be
assigned to words as were assigned to them by the Landed Estates
Court (Ireland) Act, 1858.

1. If the value of the estate sold, or of which the title shall
be judicially declared, do not exceed #10,000, then for every #100
of value a duty (at the present rate) of <

2. If the value exceed #10,000, and does not exceed #25,000, then
for the first #10,000 after the rate aforesaid, and for every
subsequent #100 of value a duty of <

3. If the value exceed #25,000, then for the first #10,000 a duty
for every #100 of value of [50p], and for every #100 in value
between #10,000 and #25,000 a duty of [25p] and for every
subsequent #100 of value a duty of <

4. For every partition, exchange, or division made by order of the
Court, where there is no sale of land, an uniform duty in respect
of every #100 of value of <