Crown debt
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crown-debt-261-7505560
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Crown debt
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Crown debt, in English law, a debt due to the crown. By various statutes, the first, the Crown Debts Act 1541, dating from the reign of Henry VIII of England, 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
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2023-11-17T01:16:41Z
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