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Crown Debt

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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In English law, a debt due to the crown. By various statutes - the first dating from the reign of Henry VIII. (1541) - the crown has priority for its debts before all other creditors. At common law the crown always had a lien on the lands and goods of debtors by record, which could be enforced even when they had passed into the hands of other persons. The difficulty of ascertaining whether lands were subject to a crown lien or not was often very great, and a remedy was provided by the Judgments Act 1839, and the Crown Suits Act FIG. 18. FIG. 20. Coronation Crowns of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII.

FIG. 24. FIG. 25. Coronets of Viscounts and Barons.

1865. Now by the Land Charges Act 1900, no debt due to the crown operates as a charge on land until a writ of execution for the purpose of enforcing it has been registered under the Land Charges Registration and Searches Act 1888. By the Act of 1541 specialty debts were put practically on the same footing as debts by record. Simple contract debts due to the crown also become specialty debts, and the rights of the crown are enforced by a summary process called an extent (see Writ).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Crown Debt'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/crown-debt.html. 1910.
 
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