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Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
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Series
Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands and The Crown Estate Office: Legal Branch:...
Catalogue reference: CRES 59
What's it about?
CRES 59
Registered files of the Legal Branch of the Crown Estate Commissioners' Office, dealing with purchase of leases, freeholds and properties, conveyances, licenses, sporting rights, foreshores, liability and other property matters. Most pieces...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CRES 59
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands and The Crown Estate Office: Legal Branch: Solicitor's Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1911-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the Legal Branch of the Crown Estate Commissioners' Office, dealing with purchase of leases, freeholds and properties, conveyances, licenses, sporting rights, foreshores, liability and other property matters. Most pieces contain maps or plans.
For information on the appraisal and selection decisions applied to records in this series, see Operational Selection Policy OSP 2, The Crown Estate, 1975-1985.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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C file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Crown Lands, Legal Branch, 1950-1956
- The Crown Estate, Legal Branch, 1956-1956
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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301 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From the establishment of the office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands in 1925 to 1950 legal advice and solicitors' services were provided to the commissioners by the Treasury Solicitors. In April 1950 management of Crown foreshores was transferred to the commissioners from the Ministry of Transport and at that time it was decided that the commissioners should have their own solicitor. A Legal Branch was established, which conducted business relating to all Crown properties, including the purchasing of leases, freeholds and properties of all sorts, grants of easement, conveyances of reclaimed land, the issuing of licenses, shooting and fishing rights, claims to foreshore rights, and questions of liability relating to The Crown Estate.
Initially the head of the Legal Branch was not an employee of The Crown Estate: the first post holder was also the Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (from 1955, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who acted as solicitor not only to The Crown Estate, but also to the Forestry Commission and the Tithe Redemption Commission. He was based in an office in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries building in Whitehall, although Legal Branch staff were located at The Crown Estate offices in Cambridge Gate.
Following the Crown Estate Act 1956, a part-time deputy solicitor was appointed on the establishment of The Crown Estate, and he gradually assumed control of work previously performed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food solicitor, until by 1958 all legal work for The Crown Estate commissioners was carried out in house and the link to the Ministry was broken.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5509/
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