An non-exhaustive list of Acts:
which apply to the so-called "Private" Estate of the purportedly-Mortmain exempt possessory interest in the alleged 'Duchy' of successive Earls & Dukes, &c.

[as @RepublicStaff, @M_Star_Online, @Guardian and @GuardianNews would rightly have it]
1261
Charter Roll 45 Hen. III no. 11, 18 June 1261
(Charter to the Community of the Land of #Cornwall)
[taking of sea sand to be lawful throughout Cornwall]

1327
Charter Roll, 1 Edw. III, m. 12
[Confirmation of the Devonshire Charter & complete exemptions from Taxation]
1331
Charter, Edward III to John of Eltham, Earl of #Cornwall, Grants of Lands, Rights, &c.

1332
Charter of Edward III to John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, Grants of Lands, Rights, &c.
1336
10 Edw. III
Assessment by Collectors of the Tenths & Fifteenths, directed by the Parliament at Nottingham, 'to assess all Tinners holding lands or tenements notwithstanding their Charters, except poor Tinners, who had nothing to live upon but their labour'
1337
17th March,
[The Great Charter]
AEP 1337 c.0 (11 Edw. III c.0)

18th March,
A Charter of Edward III, relating to the Duchy of Cornwall

7 December,
10 Edw. III
Letters-Patent of the King to the Assessors of the Tenths & Fifteenths
[see Anon. Savil. Rep. 52]
1338
3rd January,
A Charter of Edward III, relating to the Duchy of Cornwall

1339
Rot. Almaniae, Anno 12 Edw. III part.1 nu.17
“An ordinance of the King by advice of his Council concerning Tynne”
[Coke, 4 Inst. 232]
1343
Parliamentary approval of the 1305 Charter to the Tinners of #Cornwall

1343
9th July,
16 Edw. III (Fordington Charter)
[cf. Appendix L, 'Cornish Foreshores' Case, Arbitrated by Sir John Pattison 1854-1856]

1495 c.33
11 Hen. VII c.33
Leases in Wales, Cornwall & Chester void
1540 c.53
Private Act (32 Hen. VIII c.53)
Creation of the Honour of Ewelme by separating the Honour of Wallingford from the Duchy of #Cornwall and uniting it to the manor of Ewelme
1609
AEP 1609 c.18 (7 Ja. I c.18)
Sea Sand (Devon and Cornwall) Act
“An Acte for the takinge landinge and carryinge of Sea Sand for the bettringe of Grounds, and for the Increase of Corne and Tillage within the Counties of Devon and #Cornwall.”
1623 c.30
Private Act (21 Ja. I c.30)
Establishment of manors and lands in #Cornwall, Devon and Dorset [John Mohun]

1625 c.2 Public Act
Duchy of Cornwall Act

1625 c.1 Private Act
Duchy of Cornwall Act
1661 Cornwall Duchy [Private] Act

1670 c.3
Duchy of Cornwall Act

1670 c.6
Duchy Act

1670 c.7
Duchy Act

1685 Duchy of Cornwall [Private] Act

1688 c.6 Private Act
Enabling Charles Earl of Radnor to make a jointure and to raise money out of lands & tenements in #Cornwall
1694 Duchy of #Cornwall Act
(5 & 6 Will. & Mary)

“An Act for the enabling Their Majesties to make Grants, Leases & Copies of Offices, Lands & Hereditaments, Parcel of Their Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same; and for Confirmation of Leases & Grants already made”
1700 c.13
Duchy of #Cornwall Act

1701
“An Act for Enabling His Majesty to Make Leases and Copies of Offices, Land and Hereditaments, Parcel of his Dutchy of Cornwall...and for Confirmation of Leases"
1707 Duchy of Cornwall Act
(6 Ann c.52)

“An Act to Enable His Majesty to make Grants, Leases and Copies of Offices, Lands, Lands an Hereditaments, parcel of his Highness Dutchy of #Cornwall, or Annexed to the same”

1713 Duchy of Cornwall Act
(12 Ann c.25)
1714 c.1
Civil List Act

1715 c.37
Duchy of #Cornwall Act

1727 c.1
Civil List Act

1741
“An Act for granting to His Majesty the Sum of One Million out of the Sinking Fund & for allowing a Drawback of the Duties upon Coals used in Fire Engines for draining Tin & Copper Mines”
1750 c.50
“An Act for making & granting Leases of Lands, Tenements, & Mines in #Cornwall, comprised in the Marriage Sttlement & Will of Kellond Courtenay, deceased, during the Minority of his Issues...whereas some Mines of Lead & other Minerals, have lately been discovered on it”
1759 c.10
Duchy of #Cornwall Act

1760 c.9
Cornwall Duchy Act

1761
“An Act to enable His Majesty to make Leases & Copies of Offices, Lands & Hereditaments, Parcel of His Dutchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same”

1768 c.26
Duchy of Cornwall Act

1776 c.10
Duchy of Cornwall Act
1793 c.78
#Cornwall Duchy Act

1810 c.6
(50 Geo. III c.6)

“An Act to enable his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, to grant Leases and Premises called Prince's Meadows, in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Parcel of His said Royal Highnesses's [sic] Duchy”
1810 c.65
Crown Lands Act

1812
(52 Geo. c.123)
Duchy of #Cornwall Act

“An Act...to enable HRH the Prince of Wales to grant Leases of certain Lands and Premises called Prince's Meadows, in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Parcel of His said Royal Highness's Duchy”
1817
“An Act for vesting in His Majesty a certain Part of the Open Commons and Waste Lands, within the Manor or Royalty of Rialton and Retraighe alias Reterth, in the Parish of Saint Columb Major”

1822 c.78
Leases of Lands of Duchy of #Cornwall Act
1824 c.78
Duchy of Cornwall Act

1831 c.5
Duchy of Cornwall Lands Act

1833
Harrison's Case
( #Duchy of #Cornwall's Rights to hold the Scilly Islands)

[Cambridge University, GB 12 MS Add 6459]
1838 c.101
(1 & 2 Vic. c.101)
Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall (Accounts) Act

“Act to make Provision for rendering to Parliament annual Accounts of the Receipts & Disbursement of the Duchies of #Cornwall & Lancaster”

[Amended by 1978 Statute Law (Repeals) Act]
1838 c.120
(1 & 2 Vic. c.120)

Tin Duties Act / Coinage Abolition Act
(An Act to compensate Dukes of Cornwall by way of £16,216 per annum, paid until the 1980s]

[Repealed, 1983 Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act]

1842 c.2
Duchy of #Cornwall Leases, etc. Act
1844 c.65
(7 & 8 Vic. c.65)

“An Act to enable the Council of HRH Albert Edward Prince of Wales to sell & exchange Lands & enfranchise Copyholds, Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy of #Cornwall

[s.40 Repealed by 1896 Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act, Sch.]
1844 c.105
(7 & 8 Vic. c.105)

“An Act to confirm and enfranchise the Estates of the Conventionary Tenants of the ancient Assessionable Manors of the Duchy of #Cornwall, and to quiet Titles within the County of Cornwall as against the Duchy; andfor other Purposes.”
1845 Inclosure Act
s.18 :
“Whenever the Duke of #Cornwall shall be interested in land as aforesaid the Lord Warden of the Stannaries shall for the purposes of this Act, and to the extent of such interest, be substituted instead of the person interested as aforesaid.”
1848 c.83
(11 & 12 Vic. c.83)
Assessionable Manors Award Act

“An Act to confirm the Awards of Assessionable Manors Commissioners, and for other Purposes relating to the Duchies of #Cornwall and Lancaster.”
1854 c.93
(17 & 18 Vic. c.93)
Duchy of Cornwall Office Act

“An Act for the Exchange of the Office in Somerset House of the Duchy of #Cornwall for an Office to be erected in Pimlico on the Hereditary Possessions fo the Crown.”
1855 Stannaries Act
(18 & 19 Vict. 32)
“An Act to amend and extend the jurisdiction of the Stannaries Court.”
[Repealed, except s1 & s31, by 1896 Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act, Sch.]

1854-1858
so-called " #Cornish Foreshore Case"

1858
Articles of Agreement, Vic. Reg. & Dux
1858 c.109
(21 & 22 Vic. c.109)
#Cornwall Submarine Mines Act

“An Act to declare and define the respective Rights of Her Majesty and of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall to the Mines and Minerals in or under Land lying below High-water Mark"
1860 c.53
(23 & 24 Vic. c.53)
Duchy of Cornwall Act
/ Duchy of Cornwall (Limitation of Actions, &c.) Act
[Whole Act Repealed by UKPGA 1978 c.45, Sch.1, Part IV]

1862 c.49
Duchy of Cornwall Lands Act
1863 c.49
(26 & 27 Vic. c.49)
Duchy of #Cornwall Management Act

“An Act giving Power to sell and dispose of Lands, Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall, & to purchase other Lands to be annexed thereto, & to regulate future Grants of Leases of the Possessions”
1868 c.35
(31 & 32 Vic. c.35)
Duchy of #Cornwall Management Act

“An Act to extend the Provision in “The Duchy of Cornwall Management Act 1863,” relating to permanent Improvements.”
1893 c.20
(46 & 47 Vic. c.20)
Duchy of Cornwall Management Act

“An Act to extend the Provisions of the Duchy of #Cornwall Management Act, 1863, relating to the Powers of Sale and Enfranchisement, and for other purposes.”
1948 c.44
(10 & 11 Geo. VI c.44), Part IV, s.40
“(2)
Except as therein otherwise expressly provided, nothing in this Act shall...affect any right of the Crown to demand a trial at bar or to control or otherwise intervene in proceedings affecting its rights, property or profits”
1974 c.47
Solicitors Act

“Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect any rights or privileges of the solicitor to the Treasury, any other public department, Church Commissioners or #Duchy of #Cornwall, or require any such officer..."
1974 c.47
Solicitors Act, cont.

"...or any clerk or officer appointed to act for him to be admitted or enrolled or to hold a Practising Certificate in any case where it would not have been necessary for him to be admitted or enrolled or to hold such a certificate”
1981 ch.54, Part V, s.120
Senior Courts Act
[originally named the Supreme Court Act]

s.120(5)
#Duchy of #Cornwall Exempt from Sureties in Administering an Estate
1982
UKSI 1982/209
Commons (Schemes) Regulations

“4. Notice of the intention to make a scheme shall be given by…
4. (e) sending a copy of the notice to every commoner:
Providing that, where a copy of the notice is required to be sent…"
1982
UKSI 1982/209
Commons (Schemes) Regulations, cont.

"..(iii) in a case where the Duke of #Cornwall is entitled to the soil of the common, the copy of the notice shall be sent to the Lord Warden of the Stannaries.”
1982 c.47
Duchy of Cornwall Management Act

“An Act to widen the powers of management of the #Duchy of #Cornwall [under the 1863-93 Acts]; to make provision as to the office of auditor of the Duchy; and for connected purposes.”
1983 c.29, Sch.3
Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act

[Repeal of 1838 Tin Duties Act]

1986 Patronage (Benefices) Measure
UKCM 1986 No.3, s.35 :
Provisions with respect to Church Benefices in the Patronage of the Crown or Duke of #Cornwall
1996 ch.14
Reserve Forces Act

Schedule 4:
“8(2) A scheme for an association established for an area including or including any part of the counties of Devon and #Cornwall may provide that the Warden of the Stannaries shall ex-officio be a member of the association.”
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