Stannary [stannaria, fr. stannum, Lat.; stean, Cornish, tin], a tin mine.
From very ancient times there were Stannary Courts in Cornwall for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, such courts being mentioned in charters of the reign of King John. In 1855 their jurisdiction was extended to Devonshire mines. The Stannaries Court Abolition Act, 1896, trans-ferred this jurisdiction (which was exercised by a Vice-Warden with an appeal to the Lord Warden and a further appeal to the Court of Appeal by virtue of s. 18 of the Judicature Act, 1873 [see now Judicature Act, 1925, s. 26)], to county courts; see Companies Act, 1929, ss. 163 (jurisdiction in winding up), 297 to 299 (attachment of debts, preferential payments, and mine club funds), 339 (1) (contributories), 357 (prohibition of unregis-tered companies having more than twenty members not to apply), 375 (jurisdiction of the Court exercising Stannaries jurisdiction); Dunbar v. Harvey, (1913) 2 Ch 530.
The 'Stannaries' covers mines in the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall; companies and ordinary partnerships working these mines may do so under the cost-book system (see that title), or as companies registered under the Companies Act, 1929, except companies so registered, cost-book companies and ordinary partnerships are governed by the Stannaries Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 19), and the ss. of the Companies Act, 1929, supra.
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