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Crown [fr. Couronne, Fr.; corona, Lat.], an ornamental badge of regal power worn on the head by sovereign princes. The word is frequently used when speaking of the sovereign himself, or the rights, duties, and prerogatives belonging to him.The Act of Supremacy (English) (1 Eliz. C. 1), 'restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesistical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same,' after repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8, reviving the Foreign Citations Act,the Act of Appeals, Abolition of Annates Act, the Act of Submission, the Confirmation of Bishops Act, the Archiepiscopal Licenses Act (23 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 '. 9, 20; 24 Hen. 8, c. 12 l 25 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 -. 19-21; 26 Hen. 8, c. 14; 28 Hen. 8, c. 16), and also repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 6 (see HERESY), enacted that-Such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and pre-eminences spiritual and ecclesiastical as by any spiritualor ecclesiastical power or authority hath her...
Crown lands
Crown lands. The demesne lands of the Crown, which it is now usual for the sovereign to surrender at the commencement of his reign for its whole duration, in consideration of the Civil List settled upon him. Crown lands have been distributed and are managed respectively by the Commissioners of (English) Crown Lands (incorporated by Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17& 18 Geo. 5, c. 23), the Commissioners of Works; the Board of Trade; the Forestry Commissionrs; the Treasury. The revenues go to the Consolidated Fund, and they are managed under a series of (English) Crown Lands Acts, from the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1829 (c. 50), to the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 23). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Crown....
Crown debts
Crown debts. It is a prerogative of the Crownto claim priority for its debts before all other creditors, and to recover them by a summary process called an extent. See 33 Hen. 8, c. 39.Every person having money belonging to the Crown is a Crown-debtor. When upon in quisition a personis found to be a Crown-debtor by simple contract, the debt immediately becomes a specialty; but a person givien to the Crown a bond on condition is not a bond-debtor before the condition is broken.S. 28(1) of the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, provides that an order of discharge shall not release a bankrupt from his Crown debts.It is provided by the (English) Land Chargs Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 26), replaced by the Land Charges Act,1925, ss. 6 and 7, and see also the Law of Property Act, 1925, that Crown debts shall not affectlands until writ or ordr for the purpose of enforcing the judgment has been issued and registered. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Land,' and titles EXTENT; PREFERENTIAL PAYMENTS....
Scire facias for the Crown
Scire facias for the Crown. The summary proceed-ing by extent is only resorted to when a Crown debtor is insolvent, or there is good ground for supposing that the debt may be lost by delay. in ordinary cases where a debt or duty appears by record to be owing to the Crown, the process for the Crown is a writ of sci. fa. quae executionem non; but should the defendant become insolvent pend-ing this writ, the Crown may abandon the proceed-ing and resort to an extent. Consult Robertson on the Crown. See also AIR 1960 AP 123 (126)....
Crown suits
Crown suits are regulated by the (English) Crown Sutis Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 106), and suits against the Crown by the (English) Petition of Right Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c.34). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Crown'; Robertson on the Crown....
Accountant to the Crown
Accountant to the Crown. One who has received money for the Crown and for which he must account. The Crown's lien upon the lands of the accountant has been abolished by statute, but a lien remains upon the accountant's goods. See tit. CROWN DEBTS...
Crown cases reserved
Crown cases reserved. Questions of law at criminal trials (except in the case of demurrers and writs of error) might be referred for decision to the 'Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases reserved,' sitting under the authority of the Crown Cases Act,1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 78), provided the judge who tried the prisoner consented to state a case, though if he refused no court had power to compel him to do so.The jurisdiction given by the Act of 1848 (English) is now transferred to the Court of Criminal Appeal byvirtue of s. 20 of the Criminal Appeal Act,1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), which s. also preserves to some extent the procedure under the Crown Cses Act. The judgment of such court infinaland without appeal, unless a certificate of the Attorney General is obtained under s. 1(6) of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 31 (1) (a) has a saving for appeal under the Act of 1907. See R. v. Ball, 1911 AC 47; and (English) CRIMINAL APPEAL ACT, 1907....
Crown Office
Crown Office, a department originally belonging to the Court of King's Bench. The Act (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20) abolished the clerks in this Court and themonopoly of their practice, throwing it opento all persons admitted or admissible to practise as attorneys of the then Court of Queen's Bench; it also abolished several ancient offices and many burthen some fees,and made the office subject to the direct control of the Lord Chief Justice. Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 104 et seq. Replaces the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 78), which amalgamated the Crown Office with the Cntral Office of the Supreme Court, and transferred to such Central Office the' King's Coroner and Attorney' and the 'Masterof the Crown Office.'. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord.LXI., and Short and Mellor's Crown Office Practice....
Crown Solicitor
Crown Solicitor. In Ireland there were officrs called Crown solicitors attached to each circuit, whose duty it was to get up every case for the Crown in criminal prosecutions. They were paid by salaries. In Scotland the still better plan exists of a Crown prosecutor (called the Procurator-Fiscal, and being a subordinate of the Lord-Advocate) in every county, who prepares every criminal prosecution. As to England, see PUBLIC PROSECUTOR....
Master of the Crown Office
Master of the Crown Office, the Crown coroner and attorney in the criminal department of the court of King's Bench, who prosecuted at the relation of some private person or common in former, the Crown being the nominal prosecutor, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 20. He is now an officer of the Supreme Court. See CROWN OFFICE....
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