Perpetuation of Testimony Act, 1842

Attorney general to be party defendant in all such suits in which the Queen may have any estate or interest.

2. In all suits which may be so instituted under the authority of this Act, touching any honour, title, dignity, or office, or any other matter or thing, in which her Majesty may have any estate or interest, it shall be lawful to make the attorney general for the time being a party defendant thereto; and in all proceedings in which the depositions taken in any such suit in which the attorney general for the time being was so made a defendant may be offered in evidence, such depositions may be admissible notwithstanding any objection to such depositions upon the ground that her Majesty, her heirs or successors, were not parties to the suit in which such depositions were taken.