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Crown lands
Crown lands. The demesne lands of the Crown, which it is now … duration, in consideration of the Civil List settled upon him. Crown lands have been distributed and are managed respectively by the Commissioners
Commissioners of Crown Lands
Commissioners of Crown Lands, the name of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, see … 1924 (No. 1370). The Commissioners were incorporated by the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 231); their
Extent
peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the … the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of the debtor may all be taken at
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Forfeiture
The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts. (2) Conveyance contrary … transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the
Escheat
species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose … c. 94. See Hubback on Succession, ch. iv. The (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), did
Woods and forests
Woods and forests. A Government Department which managed the Crown Lands and collected all the Land Revenue of the Crown which … was added as a third Commissioner, ex officio, by the Crown Lands Act, 1906; by Order in Council [S.R. & O. 1924
Information
usual information are, in cases of intrusion, for trespasses on Crown lands; debt, for Crown moneys due upon breaches of penal statutes;
Land Revenues of the Crown
Land Revenues of the Crown. See CIVIL LIST AND CROWN LANDS.
Sufferance, Tenancy at
can never be imputed to the sovereign, a lessee of Crown lands, holding them over after the determination of his interest in
Heir
the eldest son of the Sovereign as heir to the Crown; or the eldest son of an eldest son who has … heir by a particular and local custom, as in borough-English lands, the youngest son succeeds his father, while in gavelkind lands,
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