Encumbered Estates' Court

The Encumbered Estates' Court was established by an act of the British Parliament in 1849, to facilitate the sale of Irish estates whose owners, because of the Great Famine, were unable to meet their obligations.^[1] It was given authority to sell estates on application from either the owner or an encumbrancer (somebody who had a claim on it) and, after the sale, distribute the proceeds among the creditors, granting clear title to the new owners. In 1858, the court's functions were assumed by the Landed Estates Court, which, in turn, was replaced by the Land Commission that was set up under the 1881 Land Act.^[2]

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Great Hunger in Ireland, 1845–52

General	1740–1741 Irish Famine History of Ireland (1801–1923) Penal Laws Absentee landlord Corn Laws Chronology of the Great Famine British Relief Association Souperism Coffin ship Irish diaspora Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 Encumbered Estates' Court Legacy of the Great Famine National Famine Commemoration Day List of memorials to the Great Famine 1879 Irish Famine

People	Queen Victoria Earl Russell Viscount Halifax Earl of Lucan Marquess of Londonderry Marquess Conyngham Nassau William Senior Viscount Palmerston Marquess of Lansdowne Charles Trevelyan Robert Peel Lionel de Rothschild Stephen Spring Rice John Abel Smith Paweł Strzelecki Matthew James Higgins William Henry Gregory

Laws	Irish Poor Law Act of 1838 Temporary Relief Act Irish Poor Law Extension Act Crime and Outrage Bill (Ireland) 1847

Historians	John Mitchel Cecil Woodham-Smith F. S. L. Lyons Robert Dudley Edwards Joel Mokyr Cormac Ó Gráda Diarmaid Ferriter Colm Tóibín Tim Pat Coogan

Related	Highland Potato Famine European Potato Failure Laissez-faire Economic liberalism Theories of famines Food security Malthusian catastrophe Irish Land League Land War

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