# Southwark Fire, Property Disputes Act 1677, Section II: Justices, &c. may increase or abridge Estates, and order new and longer. Leases, &c.


Their Decrees to be binding and conclusive on Infants, Feme Coverts, &c.
And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Justices and Barons and other persons abovenamed or any five or .more of them as aforesaid shall have authorise and are hereby impowered where they shall judge it convenient to order the surrendring increasing abridgeing ceasing determining or chargeing of any Estates in the Premisses or to order new or longer Leases or Estates to be made of any the Premisses by the Proprietors or Owners thereof or other person or persons interessed therein to any Tenant or Subtenant or late Occupyer of the same their Executors Administrators Successors or Assignes or any other person or persons who shall undertake to be the Builder in case the Tenant or Occupier shall refuse at such Rent or Fine as they shall judge fitt, all which Orders or Decrees according to the Tenors thereof shall be obeyed by all persons concerned therein respectively and shall conclude and binde them their Heires Successors Executors Administrators and Assignes respectively notwithstanding any disability in respect of Coverture Infancy Nonsanity of Memory Estates Taile in Possession Reversion or Remainder or in Right of the Church or other Corporations or otherwise and that Infants Feme Coverts Ideots Persons of non-sane memory or beyond the Seas Tenants in Taile or in Remainder Bishops Deanes and Chapters Ecclesiasticall persons or other Bodyes Naturall or any way incorporated their Heires Executors Administrators Successors or Assignes and all other person and persons whatsoever their Heires and Successors Executors Administrators and Assignes shall be bound and concluded by such respeive Order or Orders according to the Tenour or Purport thereof Any Law Statute or, Custome or other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/29/4/section/II (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/southwark-fire-property-disputes-act-1677/section-II
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