# Limited Owners Residences Act 1870, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+N.I.

An Act to enable the owners of Settled Estates in England and Ireland to charge such estates, within certain limits, with the expense of building mansions as residences for themselves.
[9th August 1870]
Whereas by The Entail Improvement Act, 1770, heirs of entail in Scotland are enabled to charge their estates with sums of money laid out by them in building mansions as residences for themselves:
And whereas such enactment having been found beneficial in that part of the United Kingdom, it is expedient to enable limited owners in other parts of the United Kingdom to build mansions on their estates as residences for themselves:

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/56/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/limited-owners-residences-act-1870/introduction
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