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After 1st July 1853, when a Heriot shall be due and payable, the Lord or Tenant may require or compel Enfranchisement.
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XXVII. ‘And whereas in many Manors Heriots are by Custom due and payable to the Lord by Tenants of Freehold or Customary Freehold Lands holden of such Manors:’ Be it therefore enacted, That at any Time after any such Heriot shall be due or payable with respect to any such Freehold Lands on or after the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, it shall be lawful for the Lord or the Tenant to require and compel the Extinguishment of all such Claim to Heriots, and the Enfranchisement of the Lands subject thereto, in the same Way as if such Lands were Copyhold, and the same Proceedings shall thereupon be had as are herein mentioned with reference to the Enfranchisement of Copyhold Lands, or as near thereto as the Nature of the Case will admit.
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