{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rebuilding-of-london-act-1670/section-XLV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rebuilding-of-london-act-1670/section-XLV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/22/11",
  "legislation_title": "Rebuilding of London Act 1670",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rebuilding-of-london-act-1670",
  "path": "section/XLV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XLV",
  "heading": "Twenty-one Years Possession, or more, shall enable the Owner to make Leases.",
  "text": "And whereas many Deeds Evidences and other Writeings were in the said Fire lost, burnt or imbezilled by which misfortune many persons who have Land in the said City are rendred unable to make their Right and Title soe apparent as can satisfie such as would take Leases of their said Lands and build upon them Bee it enacted That if any person or persons who have beene lawfull Possessors and esteemed Owners of any Ground within the said City for the space of One and twenty yeares or more shall grant a Lease to any person or persons of the said Land upon a valuable Ground rent soe to be esteemed by the said Maior and Aldermen or any three of them if the said Lands shall afterward be recovered from the said person soe granting That the Lease shall be good and valid the Builders onely paying the aforesaid Ground rent to the person unto whom the Ground shall rightly belong shall be freed from all charge and trouble, Any Law or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/22/11/section/XLV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:40.641031+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."
}