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court, as money ordered by a county court imder its ordinary jurisdiction to 
be paid is recoverable. 
25. Appointment of guardian. — Where a landlord or tenant is an infant 
without a guardian, or is of unsound mind, not so foimd by inquisition, the 
county court, on the application of any person interested, may appoint 
a guardian of the infant or person of unsound mind for the purposes of tliis 
Act, and may change the guardiau if and as occasion requires. 
26. Provisions respecting married women. — ^AVhere the appointment of 
a person to act as the next friend of a married woman is required for the 
purposes of this Act, the county court may make such appointment, and may 
remove or change that next friend if and as occasion requires. 
A woman married before the commencement of the Married Women's Pro- 
perty Act, 1882 [45 & 46 Vict. c. 75], entitled for her separate use to land, 
her title to wliich accrued before such commencement as aforesaid, and not 
restrained from anticipation, shaU, for the purposes of this Act, be in respect 
of land as if she was unmarried. 
Where any other woman married before the commencement of the Married 
Women's Projierty Act, 1882, is desirous of doing any act under this Act in 
respect of land, her title to which accrued before such commencement as 
aforesaid, her husband's concurrence shall be requisite, and she shall be 
examined apart from him by the county court, or by the jud2:e of the county 
court for the place where she for the time being is, touching her knowledge of 
the nature and etfect of the intended act, and it shall be ascertained that she 
is acting freely and voluntarily. 
27. Costs in county court. — The costs of proceedings in the coimty court 
under this Act shall be in the discretion of the court. 
The Lord Chancellor may from time to time prescribe a scale of costs for 
those proceedings, and of costs to be taxed by the registrar of the court. 
28. Service of notice, &c. — Any notice, request, demand, or other instru- 
ment under this Act may be served on the person to whom it is to be given, 
either personally or by leaving it for him at his last known place of abode in 
England, or by sending it through the post in a registered letter addressed to 
him there ; and if so sent by post it shall be deemed to have been served at 
the time when the letter containing it would be delivered in ordinary course ; 
and in order to prove service by letter it shall be sufScient to prove that the 
letter was properly addressed and posted, and that it contained the notice, 
request, demand, or other instrument to be served. 
Charge of Tenant's Compensition. 
29. Power for landlord on paying compensation to obtain charge. — A land- 
lord, on paying to the tenant the amount due to him in respect of compensa- 
tion under this Act, or in respect of compensation authorised by this Act to 
be substituted for compensation under this Act, or on expending such amount 
as may be necessary to execute an improvement under the second part of the 
First Schedule hereto, after notice given by the tenant of his intention to 
execute such improvement in accordance with this Act, shall be entitled 
to obtain from the county court a charge on the holding, or any part thereof, 
to the amount of the sum so paid or expended. 
The court shall, on proof of the payment or expenditure, and on being 
satisfied of the observance in good faith by the parties of the conditions 
iinposed by this Act, make an order charging the holding, or any part thereof, 
with repayment of the amount paid or expended, with such interest, and by 
such instalments, and with such directions for giving effect to the charge, as 
the court thinks fit. 
But, where the landlord obtaining the charge is not absolute owner of the 
holding for his own benefit, no instalment or interest shall be made payable 
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