Bassett-Darley Estates Act 40 Vic (NSW)

An Act to authorize the Trustees of the serpin Marriage Settlement of Mrs. Bassett to "— sell and dispose of certain lands at Manly Beach and elsewhere in the Colony of New

South Wales. [21s¢ March, 1877. |

HEREAS Darcy Wentworth late of Homebush in the Colony Preamble.

of New South Wales Esquire on the fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven duly made signed and published his last will and testament in writing of that date whereby reciting that he was possessed of extensive real estates which he was desirous of bequeathing to his children in such manner as that the same should be enjoyed by them respectively only for and during the period of their natural lives in order therefore to limit the same strictly in entail to them his said children and to the several and respective heirs of their bodies respectively the said testator gave devised and bequeathed the whole of his property real personal and mixed where- soever the same might be situate except as thereinafter was excepted unto his friends John Thomas Campbell William Lawson William Redfern Esquires and unto his the said testator's son William Charles

Wentworth

40° VIC. 1877.

Bassett-Darley Estates.

Wentworth Esquire their heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the respective nature and quality thereof To have and to hold his the said testator's said real personal and mixed estate to them his the said testator's said trustees and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor In trust nevertheless to and for the uses intents and pur- poses following that was to say (after devising certain legacies and annuities and declaring certain trusts in respect thereof) Upon trust to allow his the said testator's said son William Charles Wentworth to have possess and enjoy certain of his the said testator's estates and property in the said will particularly mentioned and described the said William Charles Wentworth to possess and enjoy the said estates hereditaments and premises respectively and every part and parcel thereof for and during the term of his natural life and from and after his decease the same to go and descend to his first and other sons and daughters in tail in the or 'ler of primogeniture males to he preferred to females and to the several and respective heirs of their bodies so as that cach possessor should take only a life estate and interest in the same Andina the event of the said William Charles Wentworth's deccase without issue then the said testator gave and devised his said estates to his said trustees and their heirs in trust to allow his the said testator's other children thereinafter mentioned to possess and enjoy the same strictly limited to life interest and entail to each of them respectively in the order of primogeniture males to be preferred to females in the order * in the said will particularly mentioned And (after certain devises and declarations of trust in favor of his son Darey Wentworth) Upon further trust to allow his the said testator's children Martha Sophia Robert Mary Ann and Katherine to possess and enjoy the whole of his the said testator''s Ilawarra estate (including ccrtain lands at Liverpool and Appin) and comprising the several parcels of land mentioned and described in the second Schedule hereto for and during the periods of the respective natural lives of his said testator's said tive thercin last- meaitioned children to be held and enjoyed by them respectively and by their respective heirs of their bodies as tenants in common and not as joint tenants with the like limitations as to remainder to their respective issue and to succession in default of such issuc as was thercin- before in the said will limited and appointed with regard to the other estates thereby by the said will devised and bequeathed to his the said testator's said son William Charles And (after declaring certain trusts in