Crown Suits Act, 1861

When right of Crown or of Duke of Cornwall shall be deemed to have accrued in case of demised lands, &c.

4. In the construction of the said Act of the ninth year of King George the Third and of this Act the right or title of the Queen's Majesty, her heirs or successors, or of the Duke of Cornwall, to any manors, lands, tenements, rents, tithes, or hereditaments which are now or shall at any time hereafter be subject to or comprised in any demise or lease for any term or terms of years, or for any life or lives, granted by or on behalf of Her Majesty, or any of her royal predecessors or successors, or the Duke of Cornwall, shall not be deemed to have first accrued or grown until the expiration or determination of such demise or lease as against any person or persons whose possession, holding, or enjoyment of such manors, lands, tenements, rents, tithes, or hereditaments, or whose receipt of the rents, issues, or profits thereof, shall have commenced during the term of such demise or lease, or who shall claim from, by, or under any person or persons whose possession, holding, or enjoyment of such manors, lands, tenements, rents, tithes, or hereditaments, or whose receipt of the rents, issues, or profits thereof, shall have so commenced as aforesaid.

[S. 5 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]