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Crown Land Act 1819

1819 CHAPTER 94 59 Geo 3

An Act to explain and amend Two Acts passed in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth and Forty-seventh Years of His present Majesty, concerning the Disposition of certain Real and Personal Property of his Majesty . . . . . .F1

[12th July 1819]

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F1Words omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (c. 33)

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C1Act repealed (E.W.) (N.I.) by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 3 Pt. I

C2Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C3Preamble (which recites Crown Private Estate Act 1800 (c. 88) and the Act 47 Geo. 3 Sess. 2 c. 24) omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (c. 33)

[I.] His Majesty may direct the execution of trusts of lands escheated, &c.; and may grant the same to trustees for that purpose, or for restoring same to the family, &c. or for rewarding discoverers, or to the families of aliens or other persons unconditionally, or in consideration of money; or to a trustee to sell. Application of purchase monies.S

In all cases in which his Majesty hath or shall, in right of his crown, or of his duchy of Lancaster, become entitled to any freehold or copyhold manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, either by escheat for want of heirs, or by reason of any forfeiture, or by reason that the same have been or shall be purchased by or for the use of or in trust for any alien or aliens, it shall be lawful for his Majesty, by warrant under his sign manual, or under the seal of the duchy or county palatine of Lancaster, according to the nature of the title to such manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments respectively, to direct the execution of any trusts or purposes to which the same may have been directed to be applied, and to make grants of such manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any parts thereof, or of any rents or profits then due and in arrear to his Majesty in respect thereof respectively, to any trustee or trustees or otherwise, for the execution of any such trusts or purposes, or to any person or persons, for the purpose of restoring the same to any of the family of the person or persons whose estates the same had been, or of carrying into effect any intended grant, conveyance, or devise of any such person or persons in relation thereto, or of rewarding any person or persons, or his, her, or their family, making discovery of any such escheat or of his Majesty’s right and title thereto, as to his Majesty shall seem fit, or to make any grant or grants of such manors, messuages, lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any part or parts thereof, to any person or persons, or his, her, or their family, making such discovery as aforesaid, or being of the family or considered or adopted as part of the family of any alien or aliens, or to any person or persons, whose estate or property the same hereditaments have been, or being of the family or considered or adopted as part of the family of any such last-mentioned person or persons, and his or their heirs and assigns, unconditionally, or in consideration of money to be paid either at or before the execution of such grant or grants, or at any time or times subsequent thereto, and to such person or persons as his Majesty shall be pleased to direct, and such money, if not paid at the execution of such grant or grants, to be a charge upon the manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments which shall be so granted, and to be secured by way of mortgage or trust, or in any other manner, as his Majesty shall think proper or be advised, and such money to be applied for any of the purposes of this Act; or to make any grant or grants of such manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any of them, unto any trustee or trustees, his or their heirs and assigns, in trust to be sold in such manner as his Majesty shall be pleased to direct; and it shall be lawful for his Majesty to direct the rents and profits of any such manors, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and the money to arise by any sale or sales, or to be produced by any of the means aforesaid, to be applied in payment of any costs, charges, and expences incident to any commission or commissions for finding the title of his Majesty, and to the making of any such grant, and for carrying the same or any trusts or provisions thereof into execution, or in rewarding any person or persons, or the family of any person or persons, making a discovery of any such escheat, forfeiture, or purchase by an alien, or of his Majesty’s right and title thereto, or in discharging the whole or any part of any debt or debts due from any alien, or any person or persons whose estate or property any such manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments have been, or for the use and benefit in whole or in part of any such alien, or of his or her family, or any part thereof, or of any person or persons adopted or considered by such alien as part of his or her family, or of any person or persons whose estate or property any such manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments have been, or his or their family, or any part thereof, or of any person or persons adopted or considered by such person or persons as part of his or her family, or for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, as to his Majesty shall seem fit; and all grants heretofore made by his Majesty, which would under the provisions of this Act be good, valid, and effectual, shall be and are hereby confirmed, and are hereby declared to be as good, valid, and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been made under the powers, provisons, and authorities of this Act, and as if such powers, provisions, and authorities had been in full force and effect at the time of making such grants; any thing in the said recited Acts, or any other Act heretofore made, to the contrary notwithstanding.

2 Purchasers not answerable for application of purchase money.S

The purchaser or purchasers of any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, sold under the authority of this Act, or any person or persons paying any sum or sums of money under the authority of the same, or in pursuance of any grants to be made by virtue thereof, shall not be bound to see to the application or be answerable for the misapplication or non-application of the monies paid by them respectively.

3 Surplus paid to commissioners of land revenue.S

Provided always, that in every case where any surplus shall remain of any monies which may arise from any such sale or sales, or which shall be paid under the authority of this Act by any person or persons, after satisfying all such purposes as shall have been ordered and directed by his Majesty, under the provisions of this Act, F2shall be paid to the commissioners of the land revenue for the time being, to be applied by them in the same way and manner as the money arising from the sale of any manors, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of or belonging to his Majesty, is by the several Acts now in force for the management and improvement of the land revenue of the crown, or any of them, directed to be applied and disposed of.

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