11Recovery of rent on death of tenant for life

11 Recovery of rent on death of tenant for life

In case any tenant for life happen to die before or on the day on which any rent was reserved or made payable upon any demise or lease of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments which determined on the death of such tenant for life, then the executors or administrators of such tenant for life may, in an action, recover of and from such under-tenant of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments (if such tenant for life die on the day on which the same was made payable), the whole or, if before such day, then, a proportion of such rent according to the time such tenant for life lived of the last year or quarter of a year or other time in which the said rent was growing due as aforesaid, making all just allowances or a proportionable part thereof respectively.