Court may authorise dedication of any part of settled estates for streets, roads, and other works
19 Court may authorise dedication of any part of settled estates for streets, roads, and other works
The court may, if it shall deem it proper and consistent with a due regard for the interests of parties entitled under the settlement, and subject to the provisions and restrictions in the Act contained, from time to time direct that any part of any settled estates be laid out for streets, roads, paths, squares, gardens, or other open spaces, sewers, drains, or watercourses, either to be dedicated to the public or not; and the court may direct that the parts so laid out shall remain vested in the trustees of the settlement, or be conveyed to or vested in any other trustees, upon such trusts for securing the continued appropriation thereof to the purposes aforesaid in all respects, and with such provisions for the appointment of new trustees when required, as by the court shall be deemed advisable.
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