Settled Estates Act 1880

The court may, if it shall deem it proper and consistent with a due regard for the interests of all parties who are or may hereafter be entitled under the settlement, and subject to the provisions and restrictions in this Act contained, sanction any action, defence, petition to Parliament, parliamentary opposition, or other proceedings appearing to the court necessary for the protection of any settled estate, and to order that all or any part of the costs and expenses in relation thereto be raised and paid by means of a sale or mortgage of, or charge upon all or any part of the settled estate, or be raised and paid out of the rents and profits of the settled estate, or out of any moneys or investments representing moneys liable to be laid out in the purchase of hereditaments, to be settled in the same manner as the settled estate, or out of the income of such moneys or investments, or out of any accumulations of rent, profits, or income.