{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-improvement-act-1770/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-improvement-act-1770/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "apgb/Geo3/10/51",
  "legislation_title": "Entail Improvement Act 1770",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-improvement-act-1770",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Proprietor laying out money for improvement of estate to be a creditor to succeeding heir for three fourths thereof;",
  "text": "And whereas it may be highly beneficial to the public, if proprietors of entailed estates were encouraged to lay out money in inclosing, planting, or draining, or in erecting farm-houses, and offices or out-buildings for the same, upon their entailed lands and heritages: And whereas such proprietors may be induced and encouraged so to do, if they, their executors and assigns, were secured in recovering a reasonable satisfaction for the money expended in making such improvements, from the succeeding heirs of entail; Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every proprietor of an entailed estate who lays out money in inclosing, planting, or draining, or in erecting farm-houses, and offices or out-buildings for the same, for the improvement of his lands and heritages, shall be a creditor to the succeeding heirs of entail for three fourth parts of the money laid out in making the said improvements.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}