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Interpretatin of Terms.
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3. In the Construction of this Act, and of this Section thereof, the following Words and Expressions shall have the Meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, unless there be something in the Subject or Context requiring a different Construction:
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The Word “Court” means the Landed Estates Court of Ireland:
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The Word “Certificate” means a Certificate declaring Land chargeable with Debentures under this Act:
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The Word “Debenture” means a Debenture charged upon Land under this Act:
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The Word “Person” extends to and includes a Body Politic or Corporate, whether aggregate or sole, and any Company as well as a private Individual, and includes also the Assignees of any Bankrupt or Insolvent:
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The Word “Possession” includes the Receipt of Rents and Profits:
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The Word “Land” includes and extends to Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments hold in Fee Simple or Fee-farm, also impropriate Rentcharges in lieu of Tithe, and other perpetual Rentcharges or Annuities and Fee-farm Rents issuing out of Land in Ireland, whether subject or not subject to any Incumbrance:
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The Words “recorded Land” mean any Land the Title to which shall be recorded under the “Record of Title Act (Ireland), 1865:”
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The Word “Owner,” as applied to Land or recorded Land, means the Person or Persons entitled for his or their own Benefit, at Law or in Equity, in possession, to a Fee Simple, Fee-farm, or perpetual Interest in any Land or recorded Land as above defined:
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The Word “Incumbrance” means any legal or equitable Charge by Mortgage, Lien, Judgment, Decree, Rule, or Order, Crown Bond, Recognizance, Legacy, Portion, Trust, or otherwise, whereby any Sum of Money is secured upon or made payable out of any Land, and includes also any Easement, and any Rentcharge, Annuity, or other annual or periodical Charge or Payment, except only Quit and Crown Rents, Rentcharges in lieu of Tithe, and Charges imposed by any Act for the Drainage or. Improvement of Land:
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And the Word “Incumbrance” means any Person entitled to an Incumbrance, or to require the Payment, Discharge, or Benefit thereof.
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