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CROWN PRIVATE ESTATE ACT 1800 - SECT 4

His Majesty, his heirs and successors, may sell or devise such manors, &c. as His Majesty's subjects may like manors, &c. belonging to them.

4. AND ... notwithstanding any thing in the said recited Acts contained, or
any other statute, law, custom or usage to the contrary, it shall be lawful
for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, from time to time, by any
instrument under his and their royal sign manual attested by two or more
witnesses, or by his and their last will and testament in writing, or any
writing in the nature of a last will or testament, to be signed and published
by His Majesty, his heirs and successors respectively, in the presence of and
to be attested by three or more witnesses, at his and their free will and
pleasure, to grant, sell, give or devise all and every or any of the manors,
messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments, so purchased or to be purchased
by or which have or shall so come to His Majesty, his heirs or successors as
aforesaid, whether of freehold or copyhold or customary or leasehold tenure,
and whether conveyed or assured to or otherwise vested in His Majesty, his
heirs or successors, or to or in any person or persons in trust for His
Majesty, his heirs or successors as aforesaid, unto any person or persons, for
any estate or estates, or for any intents or purposes, His Majesty, his heirs
or successors respectively shall think fit, as any of His Majesty's subjects
may grant, sell, give or devise any the like manors, messuages, lands,
tenements and hereditaments respectively, belonging to such subjects
respectively, by their respective deeds or other instruments or last wills and
testaments respectively; and all and every person and persons who shall be
seised or possessed of or entitled to any such manors, messuages, lands,
tenements or hereditaments respectively, or any estate or interest therein
respectively, in trust for His Majesty, his heirs or successors respectively,
shall convey, surrender, assign or otherwise assure the same, in such manner
as His Majesty, his heirs or successors, under his or their royal sign manual
respectively, to be attested as aforesaid, shall direct; and all and every of
the provisions made by law for the conveyance of trust estates by infants,
idiots and lunaticks, shall extend to such persons as are or shall be a
trustee or trustees for His Majesty, his heirs and successors respectively,
and such trust estates shall be conveyed, surrendered and assured by such
infants, idiots and lunaticks, or the committees of such idiots or lunaticks
accordingly.


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