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Bodies corporate, &c. may sell and convey lands to commissioners for roads and bridges.
Form of conveyance.
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75. After any lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall have been set out and ascertained for making any road or bridge hereby authorized to be made or erected, or any of the approaches thereto, it shall be lawful for all bodies politic, corporate, and collegiate, corporations aggregate or sole, tenants in tail or for life, or for any other partial or qualified estates or interests, husbands, guardians, trustees, and feoffees in trust for charitable or other purposes, committees, executors, and administrators, and all trustees and persons whomsoever, not only for and on behalf of themselves, their heirs and successors, but also for and on behalf of the person or persons entitled in reversion, remainder, or expectancy after them, if incapacitated, and for and on behalf of their cestuique trusts, whether infants, issue unborn, lunatics, idiots, femes covert, or other person or persons, and to and for all femes covert who are or shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in their own right, or entitled to dower or other interest in the same, and for all and every other person and persons whomsoever, who is, are, or shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments which shall be so set out and ascertained for the purposes aforesaid, to contract for, sell, and convey the same, aod every part thereof, unto the said commissioners for the execution of this Act; and all such contracts, agreements, sales, conveyances, and assurances shall be made at the expense of the said commissioners, and such expense by them deducted from the sum granted for the purpose of constructing the same road or bridge; and all such contracts, agreements, sales, conveyances, and assurances shall be made according to the following form, or as near thereto as the number of the parties and the circumstances of the case will permit; (namely,)
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‘I, , of , in consideration of the sum of to me paid by the commissioners appointed under an Act passed in the second year of the reign of his Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled [here set forth the title of this Act], do hereby grant and release to the said commissioners, all [describing the premises to be conveyed], together with all ways, rights, and appurtenances thereto belonging, and all my estate, right, and interest in the same, and every part thereof, to hold to the said commissioners and their successors for ever, according to the true intent and meaning of the said Act. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day of in the year of our Lord .’ And all conveyances and assurances aforesaid shall be good and valid and effectual in law to all intents and purposes, and shall operate and be good as a merger of all outstanding terms of years, and be a complete and effectual bar to all estates tail, and other estates, rights, titles, remainders, reversions, limitations, trusts, charges, incumbrances, and interests whatsoever.
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