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Sale of settled estates

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Crown lands

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 … Crown lands. The demesne lands of the Crown, which it is now usual for the sovereign to surrender at the

Labourers' dwellings

Act,1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 72), which amended the above enactments, as above mentioned, also enacted that settled land might be sold, let, or exchanged, for the erection there upon of dwellings for the working classes at

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Partition

title to a legal estate by the (English) Law of Property Act, ss. 1 (6), 34, and (English) Settled Land Act s. 36, the entirety becoming vested in trustees for sale, the (English) Partition Acts, 1868 and 1876,

Park

Cro Car 59; Pease v. Courtney, (1904) 2 Ch 509. The word 'park,' as used in the (English) Settled Land Acts, is not confined to an ancient legal park but includes an ordinary private park (Pease v. Courtney).

Land Commissioners

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Conversion, equitable

regard to the question whether the property is subject to a trust for sale or whether it is settled land and the rights of persons entitled as residuar, devisees or legatees under wills or settlements, Consult Lewin, Godefroi,

Options to purchase

option for purchase or to take a lease exerciseable over any period not exceeding ten years [see (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 51]. Attention should be given to the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 149(3),

Inclosure

Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 118), are now vested in the Ministry of Agriculture. Under the Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 83, and see 3rd Sched., Part I., inclosing is an improvement for which no replacement

Escheat

40); nor were the rights of the Crown affected by a sale under the powers of the (English) Settled Land Acts [Re Bond, (1901) 1 Ch 15]. But the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duke of

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