The Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1861
WHEREAS there are in England certain Ecclesiastical Benefices to which belong Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments which, by Custom or otherwise, the Rectors, Vicars, Perpetual Curates, or Incumbents thereof have Power to grant and lease out for Lives and long Terms of Years, and such Grants have been made by them at nominal annual Rents, to the Prejudice of their Successors, and it is expedient to determine and put an end to the Power to make such Grants: Be it therefore enacted by th...