West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts

West Indian Incumbered Estates Act 1854
Act of Parliament
Citation17 & 18 Vict. c. 117
Dates
Royal assent11 August 1854
Commencement2 February 1857 (St. Vincent)
West Indian Incumbered Estates Act 1858
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to amend "The West Indian Incumbered Estates Act, 1854."
Citation21 & 22 Vict. c. 96
Dates
Royal assent2 August 1858
Other legislation
Amended byStatute Law Revision Act 1875
West Indian Incumbered Estates Act 1862
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to amend "The West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts, 1854 and 1858."
Citation25 & 26 Vict. c. 45
Dates
Royal assent17 July 1862
West Indian Incumbered Estates Act 1864
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to amend "The West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts."
Citation27 & 28 Vict. c. 108
Dates
Royal assent29 July 1864
West Indies (Encumbered Estates) Act 1872
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to continue the Appointment and Jurisdiction of the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies.
Citation35 & 36 Vict. c. 9
Dates
Royal assent13 May 1872
Other legislation
Amended byStatute Law Revision Act 1883
West Indian Incumbered Estates Act 1886
Act of Parliament
Citation49 & 50 Vict. c. 36
Dates
Royal assent25 June 1886

The West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of 1854, 1858, 1862, 1864, 1872, and 1886 that allowed creditors and other interested parties to apply for the sale of estates (plantations) in the British colonies in the West Indies despite legal encumbrances that would normally prevent such a sale. The legislation was modelled on the acts that created the Irish Encumbered Estates' Court after the Great Famine of the 1840s that allowed indebted and moribund estates to be sold.