Peto's Act

Peto's Act, the (English) Trustee Appointment Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 28), whereby property conveyed for religious or educational purposes vests in the trustees from time to time without any further conveyance; amended by the Trustees Appointment Act, 1890, by its extension to societies of associated congregations, such as those of the Wesleyan Methodists, to which body the Act of 1850 had been held in Re Hoghton Chapel, (1854) 2 WR 631, not to apply. Extended to burial grounds by 32 & 33 Vict. c. 26.