Pennsylvania Act 1850-342 — WASTE WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT

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WASTE WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT
                 Act of Apr. 22, 1850, P.L. 549, No. 342              Cl. 42
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "An Act to prevent waste in certain cases
        within this commonwealth," passed the twenty-ninth day of
        March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two; to land and
        building associations; giving the court of Susquehanna county
        jurisdiction in a certain case; relative to the service of
        process in certain cases; to party walls in West
        Philadelphia; to the proof of a certain will; to the sale and
        purchase of certain burial grounds in Philadelphia; to the
        laying of gas pipes in the district of Moyamensing; to the
        release of certain sureties in Erie county; to the State
        Lunatic hospital; relative to the service of process against
        sheriffs; to the rights of married women; to ground rents;
        and relating to foreign insurance companies.

        Section 19.  Service of process (19 repealed Oct. 9, 2009,
     P.L.494, No.49)
        Section 20.  (20 repealed Oct. 31, 1985, P.L.264, No.66)
        Section 21.  Perpetual ground rents not to be created
        From and after the passage of this act, whenever a deed or
     other instrument of writing conveying real estate shall be made,
     wherein shall be contained a reservation of ground rent, to
     become perpetual upon the failure of the purchaser to comply
     with the conditions therein contained, no such covenant or
     condition shall be so construed as to make the said ground rent
     a perpetual encumbrance upon the said real estate;  but it shall
     and may be lawful for the purchaser thereof, at any time after
     the said ground rent shall have fallen due, to pay the full
     amount of the same, and such payment shall be a complete
     discharge of such real estate from the encumbrance aforesaid.
     (1850, April 22, P.L. 549, Sec. 21.)