Duchy of Cornwall (limitation of actions, etc.) Act 1860
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1860 c. 53 |
| Year | 1860 |
(23 & 24 Vict.) C A P. LIII.
[23d July 1860]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of KingGeorge the Third, Chapter Sixteen, Provision is made for limiting the Right of the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to sue, impeach, question, or implead any Person, Body Politic or Corporate, for or concerning any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tithes, or Hereditaments whatsoever (other than Liberties or Franchises), or for or concerning the Revenues, Issues, or Profits thereof, and for quieting Possessions and Titles against the Crown: And whereas an Act was passed in the Session holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and five, ‘to confirm and enfranchise the Estatesof the Conventionary Tenants of the ancient assessionable Manors of the Duchy ofCornwall , and to quiet Titles within the County of Cornwall as against the Duchy, and for other Purposes,’ but the Provisions of the said Act for quieting Titles within the County of Cornwall as against the Duchy do not extend to any Property, Right, Claim, or Question of, to, or concerning Navigable Rivers, Estuaries, Ports, or Branches of the Sea, or the Fundus or Soil thereof respectively, or the Shores between High and Low Water Mark thereof respectively: And whereas it is expedient that as to Hereditaments not within the County of Cornwall , and also as to such Hereditaments within the said County as are excepted from the Provisions of the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her Majesty, the Limitation applicable to Actions and Suits by the Crown should be made applicable to Actions and Suits by the Duke ofCornwall :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I Provisions of 9 G. 3. c. 16. as to Limitations of Actions and Suits to extend to the Duke of Cornwall.
I. All the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of KingGeorge the Third now applicable to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, shall extend and be applicable to the Duke of...
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