Crown Suits Act, 1861

CROWN SUITS ACT 1861

CHAPTER LXII.

An Act to amend the Act of the Ninth Year of King George the Third, Chapter Sixteen, for quieting Possessions and Titles against the Crown, and also certain Acts for the like Object relating to Suits by the Duke of Cornwall.[1] [1st August 1861.]

9 Geo. 3. c. 16.

WHERES AS by an Act passed in the ninth year of King George the Third, chapter sixteen, provision is made for limiting the right of the King's Majesty to sue and implead any person for or concerning lands and hereditaments, or the rents, issues, or profits thereof, and for quieting possessions and titles against the Crown: And whereas the good purpose of that Act has not been fully obtained by reason of the provisions therein relating to lands and hereditaments which have been in charge to Her Majesty or have stood insuper of record, and also by reason of certain provisions therein relating to lands and hereditaments part or parcel of honours, manors, or other hereditaments:

[1 Short title, “The Crown Suits Act, 1861” See 55 & Vict. c 10.]