§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ LORD WINMARLEIGH,in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, that the object of the measure—which had come up from the Commons—was to consolidate and amend the law relating to leases mid sales of settled estates. The powers now possessed on this behalf had been created by several Acts of Parliament, all passed in the reign of Her Majesty; and, in consequence, great difficulty and confusion had arisen, and the powers of the Courts by which their provisions had been administered were defective. This Bill repealed the whole of these Acts, and contained a series of clauses which extended and defined the powers in regard to settled estates contained in the previous Acts.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.