Crown Suits (Isle of Man) Act 1862
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1862 c. 14 |
(25 & 26 Vict.) C A P. XIV.
[16th May 1862]
'WHEREAS by the First and Second Sections of an Actpassed in the Session of Parliament held in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety, it was enacted that in all Informations, Actions, Suits, and other legal Proceedings to be thereafter instituted before any Court or Tribunal whatever in the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Ireland , by or on behalf of the Crown, against any Corporation or Person or Persons, in respect of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or of any Goods or Chattels belonging or accruing to the Crown, the Proceeds whereof, or the Rents or Profits of which said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments by any Act then in force or thereafter to be passed were to be carried to the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland , or in respect of any Sum or Sums of Money due and owing to Her Majesty by virtue of any Vote of Parliament for the Service of the Crown, or of any Act of Parliament relating to the Public Revenue, Her Majesty's Attorney General, or in Scotland the Lord Advocate, should be entitled to recover Costs for and on behalf of Her Majesty, where Judgment shall be given for the Crown, in the same Manner and under the same Rules, Regulations, and Provisions as were or might be in force touching the Payment or Receipt of Costs in Proceedings between Subject and Subject, and that such Costs should be paid into the Exchequer, and should become Part of the Consolidated Fund; and it was also enacted, that if in any such Information, Action, Suit, or other Proceeding Judgment should be given against the Crown, the Defendant or Defendants should be entitled to recover Costs in like Manner and subject to the same Rules and Provisions as though such Proceeding had been had between Subject and Subject; and that it should be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and they were thereby required to pay such Costs out of any Monies which might be thereafter voted by Parliament for that Purpose: And whereas it is expedient that the Provisions of the said Act should be extended to theIsle of Man :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent...
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