Lords Sitting of 5 April 1892

LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ACQUISITION OF LAND) BILL.
COMMITTEE.
Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee, read.
LORD BASING: My Lords, I do not propose to move the Amendments of which notice has been given, but to reserve that for the Standing Committee.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord HALSBURY): My Lords, before the matter is disposed of I must say this. In addition to the very odd collection of Statutes which are engrafted into the Bill by—I was going to say the draftsman, but I will spare the susceptibilities of my noble and learned Friend (Lord Thring)—I do not see him here—by the author of the Bill, I will say, in his drafting, I observe that among the Amendments suggested one is to get rid of one of the provisions of the Mortmain Act, viz., that which renders it necessary that a person who makes a present of land for the purposes suggested should survive at least a twelvemonth. I am not enamoured of the Mortmain Act, as I have said more than once; but, if that provision is wrong, it ought to be repealed, and it ought not, for this particular purpose, to be got rid of in this way. I do not understand that we have got to do it now, but that it is to go to the Standing Committee, and I wish to give warning what will happen to it when it gets there.
LORD BASING: I am certainly very willing that these Amendments and any others shall be discussed in the Standing Committee, and I only wish it were in my power to secure that this and other Bills—I think I may say Government Bills—should set out the whole of the provisions in previous Acts to which they refer.
House in Committee (according to order); Bill reported without amendment, and re-committed to the Standing Committee.

SALE OF GOODS BILL [H.L.]
Reported from the Standing Committee with amendments; and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 58.)

CONVEYANCING AND LAW OF PROPERTY ACT, 1881, AMENDMENT BILL.
Order of the Day for receiving the Report of amendments read, and discharged.
House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock.