{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-leases-act-1800-repealed-19111998/section-I.",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-leases-act-1800-repealed-19111998/section-I..json",
  "legislation": "apgb/Geo3/39-40/41",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1800 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-leases-act-1800-repealed-19111998",
  "path": "section/I.",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Where any part of the possessions of any archbishop, &c., or person having any ecclesiastical living, shall be demised by several leases which was formerly demised by one, or where a part shall be demised for less than the ancient rent and the residue shall be retained in the possession of the lessor, the several rents reserved on the separate demises of the specific parts shall be taken to be the ancient rents within the meaning of 32 Hen. 8. c. 28., 1 Eliz. c. 19., 13 Eliz. c. 10., and 14 Eliz. c. 11.",
  "text": "In all cases where any honours, castles, manors, messuages, lands, tythes, tenements or other hereditaments, being parcel of the possessions of any archbishop, bishop, master and fellows, dean and chapter, master or guardian of any hospital, or any other person or persons or body or bodies politick or corporate having any spiritual or ecclesiastical living or promotion, and having been anciently or accustomably demised by one lease under one rent or divers rents issuing out of the whole, now are or shall hereafter be demised by several leases to one or several persons under an apportioned or several rents, or where a part only of such honours, manors, messuages, lands, tythes, tenements or other hereditaments as last mentioned are or shall be demised by a separate lease or leases, under a less rent or less rents than was or were accustomably reserved for the whole by such former lease, and the residue thereof is or shall be retained in the possession or occupation of the lessor or lessors, the several and distinct rents reserved on the separate demises of the several specifick parts thereof comprized in and demised by such several leases shall be deemed and taken to be the ancient and accustomed rents for such specifick parts respectively, within the intent and meaning of an Act passed in the thirty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King Henry the Eighth, intituled “Lessees to enjoy the farm against the tenants in tail;” and of an Act passed in the first year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, intituled “An Act giving Authority to the Queen’s Majesty upon the avoidance of any archbishop or bishop to take into her hands certain of the temporal possessions thereof, recompensing the same with parsonages impropriate and tythes;” and of the Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1571 and of the Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1572.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo3/39-40/41/section/I.",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:48:47.314296+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."
}