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CROWN DEBT

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROWN See also:DEBT , in See also:English See also:law, a debt due to the crown. By various statutes—the first dating from the reign of See also:Henry VIII. (1541)—the crown has priority for its debts before all other creditors. At See also:common law the crown always had a See also:lien on the lands and goods of debtors by See also: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 See also:great, and a remedy was provided by the Judgments See also:Act 1839, and the Crown Suits Act Coronets of Viscounts and Barons. 1865. Now by the See also:Land Charges Act 1900, no debt due to the crown operates as a See also:charge on land until a See also:writ of See also:execution for the purpose of enforcing it has been registered under the Land Charges See also:Registration and Searches Act 1888. By the Act of 1541 specialty debts were put practically on the same footing as debts by record. See also:Simple See also:contract debts due to the crown also become specialty debts, and the rights of the crown are enforced by a See also:summary See also:process called an extent (see WRIT).

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