An Act to amend and extend the Jurisdiction of the Stannary Court.
[15th June 1855]
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C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
Where any mine or sett within the Stannaries shall be worked by the same adventurers not only for metallic minerals within the jurisdiction of the court, but also for non-metallic minerals found in the same mine or sett, or intermixed with metallic minerals, the entire mine and works and products thereof shall be taken to be within the cognizance of the vice-warden, as if the same had wholly consisted of metallic minerals, and the process of the court shall extend to and be exercised over the same, and all the machinery and materials thereon, as in the case of mines of metallic minerals; and the mineral called plumbago or black lead is hereby declared to be a metallic mineral.
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C3Jurisdiction of court of vice-warden now exercisable by county court: Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act 1896 (c. 45), s. 1
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F1Ss. 2–30, 32–38 repealed by Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act 1896 (c. 45), Sch.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 Whenever any person shall be appointed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, or other the personage for the time being entitled to the possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall, to act as attorney or solicitor in the affairs of the said Duchy, it shall be lawful for such person to act and practise as such attorney or solicitor in such affairs in all and every court, jurisdiction, and place in any and every part of the United Kingdom, any statute, order, rule, usage, or custom relating to attornies or solicitors, or the admission, inrolment, or practice of attornies or solicitors, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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F2Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
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C4References to attorney or solicitor to be construed as references to solicitor: Solicitors Act 1974 (c. 47), s. 89(6)
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F3Ss. 2–30, 32–38 repealed by Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act 1896 (c. 45), Sch.