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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1859/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/22/12",
  "legislation_title": "Defence Act 1859",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-act-1859",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "†Conveyances of land to Secretary of State for War as in Sched.(A).",
  "text": "Conveyances of land in England and Ireland to be purchased by the Secretary of State for Defence may be according to the form in the schedule (A.) to this Act, or as near thereto as the circumstances of the case admit; and all conveyances so made shall be effectual to vest the land thereby conveyed in the Secretary of State for Defence and his successors, and shall operate to bar and destroy all such estates tail, and other estates, rights, titles, remainders, reversions, limitations, trusts, and interests whatsoever of and in the land comprised in such conveyances, as have been purchased or compensated for by the consideration given on the purchase; . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VII"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/22/12/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:38.132038+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."
}