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An Act to alter for a limited period the place of sitting of the Heir and Devisee Commission of the late Province of Upper Canada and for other purposes therein mentioned… (1841)

Sundry parts of former Acts repealed I. That from and after the passing of this Act so much of an Act of the Parliament of the Province of Upper Canada, passed in the forty-eighth year, of the reign of His late Majesty King George the third, intituled [ [An Act to continue an Act passed in the forthy-fifth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled An Act to afford relief to those persons who may be entitled to claim Lands in this Province as Heirs or Devisees of the Nominees of the Crown in cases where no patent hath issueed for such Land] ]
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An Act to alter for a limited period the place of sitting of the Heir and Devisee Commission of the late Province of Upper Canada and for other purposes therein mentioned… (1841)

Section 12 of the Canadian Copyright Act provides a reservation for Crown rights or privileges. Lack of modern case law on the subject makes it unclear whether perpetual prerogative rights over these documents still apply, or whether these rights have lapsed.
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