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Commissioners of Crown Lands

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Hereditary revenues

Hereditary revenues. Crown Lands, escheats (see that title), and certain small branches, such as Post Office Profits, enumerated in 1 Anne, c.

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Sergeanty

Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord but to the king only

Extent, the peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the … differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of the debtor may all be taken at once, in order to compel the payment of

Magna Carta

of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient liberties of England; and they … of an infant heir of an earl, baron, or knight; chapter four prohibited the guardian from wasting the lands of his ward, and from destroying his tenants, a plain indication of the wretched condition of the serfs

Tenure

which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits in the soil, designated by … College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334. Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of

Forfeiture

of convicts. (2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled to the land. But the … cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry. The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts. (2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an

Escheat

word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose ancestor the estate was originally derived, taking it … family, as pointed out by 59 Geo. 4, c. 94. See Hubback on Succession, ch. iv. The (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), did not bind the Crown (Re Hartleg, 1899, P.

Woods and forests

Woods and forests. A Government Department which managed the Crown Lands and collected all the Land Revenue of the Crown which goes to the public account. The Department was … to whom the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries was added as a third Commissioner, ex officio, by the Crown Lands Act, 1906; by Order in Council [S.R. & O. 1924 (No. 1370)] the name of the Commissioners was

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