Copyhold Act, 1887

Provision for case of trustees, infants, lunatics and married women.

39. Anything by the Copyhold Acts required or authorised to be done by the lord of a manor, or the tenant or owner of any land or right, may be done by such lord or tenant or owner, notwithstanding that he may be a trustee for any person, or that his estate in such manor or land be only a limited estate; and the guardian of an infant lord, tenant, or owner, and the committee of the estate of a lunatic lord, tenant, or owner, shall have full power to do on his behalf anything by the said Acts required or authorised to be done by such infant or lunatic; and a married woman, being lady of the manor, or tenant of any land or right of copyhold or customary tenure, shall for the purposes of the said Acts be deemed to be a feme sole.