{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-lands-forfeited-estates-act-1698/section-LXXVI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-lands-forfeited-estates-act-1698/section-LXXVI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/11/2",
  "legislation_title": "Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-lands-forfeited-estates-act-1698",
  "path": "section/LXXVI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LXXVI",
  "heading": "Tenant paying acquitted for such Payments.",
  "text": "Commissioners may settle difference between Landlord and Tenant as to Rate; Persons aggrieved may complain to Commissioners; Appeals final; If Proportions of Rate not fully assessed, or assessed upon Persons not of Ability, or upon empty Houses, &c. or if Assessments not paid to Receiver General, Commissioners, Assessors, &c. are to re-assess; Such new Assessments to be made, &c. as former Assessments.\nAnd it is enacted and declared, That every Tenant paying the said Assessments, shall be acquitted and discharged for soe much Money as the said Assessments shall amount unto, as if the same had been actually paid unto such Person or Persons, unto whom his Rents should have beene due and payable; And if any Difference shall arise betweene Landlord and Tenant, or any other concerning the said Rates, the said severall Commissioners or any Two or more of them, in their severall Divisions, shall and have hereby Power to settle the same as they shall think fitt; And if any Person or Persons shall find him or themselves aggrieved, in that the Assessors have over-rated him or them, and in Six Daies after Demand made of the Summe assessed on him or them, doe by him or themselves, or by his or their Stewards or Bailiffs, complaine to Three or more of the Commissioners (whereof Two of the Commissioners who signed or allowed his, her or their Assessment to be of that Number) the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them, shall have and have hereby Power, within Ten Daies after the Demand of the Assessment, as aforesaid, to releive such Person or Persons, and to charge the same on such other Person or Persons as they shall see Cause; And Appeals once heard and determined to be finall, without any further Appeale upon any Pretence whatsoever; And in case the Proportions sett by this Act, upon all and every the respective Counties, Rideings, Cities, Townes and Places shall not be fully assessed, levied, and paid, according to the true Meaneing hereof, or if any of the said Assessments shall be rated and imposed upon any Person, not being of Ability to pay the same, or upon any empty or void House or Land, where the same cannot be collected or levyed or that through any Wilfullnesse, Negligence, Mistake or Accident, the said Assessment charged on each County, Rideing, City, Towne or Place, by vertue of this Act, happen not to be paid to the Receiver Generall, his Deputy or Deputies of the respective Counties, as in this Act is directed, that then in all and every such Cases, the severall and respective Commissioners, Assessors, and Collectors aforesaid, and every of them respectively, are hereby authorized and required to assesse or reassesse, or cause to be assessed or reassessed, levied and paid, all and every such Summe and Summs of Money upon the respective Divisions and Hundreds wherein such Deficiency shall happen, or Parishes therein, as to the said Co[m]missioners or such Number of them as by this Act are authorized to cause the first Assessment hereby required to be made, shall seeme most agreeable to Equity and Justice; The said new Assessment to be made, collected and paid in such Manner, and by such Meanes as in this Act for this Assessment is declared and directed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of Money O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/2/section/LXXVI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:38.844222+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}