{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-improvement-act-1770/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-improvement-act-1770/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "apgb/Geo3/10/51",
  "legislation_title": "Entail Improvement Act 1770",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-improvement-act-1770",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Heir first succeeding, not living long enough to be indemnified for what he pays, his executors may sue succeeding heir of entail for relief, etc. Like relief to executors of every heir who is not repaid.",
  "text": "And whereas it may happen that the heir, who next succeeds to the proprietor who expended money in making improvements upon an entailed estate, may pay all or part of the money due on account of such improvements, and may not live so long as to be indemnified by the third part of the rents which shall come to his use, or to the use of his heirs or executors; if the heir who first succeeds in the entailed estate to the proprietor who expended the money, does pay all or part of the money due on account of the improvements made, and shall not live long enough to be indemnified of what he pays by one third part of the rents that shall come to his use, or to the use of his heirs or executors; it shall be competent to his executors or assigns to sue the succeeding heir of entail for relief of such part of the money as shall not be repaid by the third part of the rents which have come to his use, or to the use of his heirs or executors; and relief shall in like manner be competent to the executors or assigns of every heir of entail who pays more than is repaid by the third part of the rents which have come to his use, or to the use of his heirs and executors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo3/10/51/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:30.554829+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."
}