Royal Warrant - Granting Custody of the Persons and Estates of Persons of Unsound Mind [1940-05-13]
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GEORGE R. I.
RIGHT TRUSTY and Well-beloved Counsellors, We greet you Well!
WHEREAS it belongeth to Us in right of Our Royal Prerogative to provide for the custody of persons of unsound mind and their Estates without taking the profits thereof to Our Own Use:
AND WHEREAS We have thought fit to entrust you with the care and commitment of the custody of such Persons of unsound mind as may be so found by Inquisition and their Estates:
NOW THEREFORE We do by these Presents give and grant unto you full power and authority without expecting any further special Warrant from Us from time to time by Order and without Grant passed under Our Great Seal as formerly to grant and commit the custody of such persons of unsound mind as are of shall be so found by Inquisition and their Estates to such person or persons suitors in that behalf as according to the rules of the Law and Practice in these and the like cases you shall judge meet for that Trust.
AND WE DO declare our Will and Intention to be that the several powers which We have hereby given and granted
shall/
The Lord Chancellor
The Master of the Rolls
and Justices of Appeal.
To give order for granting the
Custody of persons and Estates
of persons of unsound mind.
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shall and may be exercised by you or any two or more of you jointly acting or sitting together or by any one of you alone acting or sitting separately,
AND for so doing this shall be your Warrant.
GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James’s
the Thirteenth day of May, 1940;
In the fourth Year of Our Reign.
BY His Majesty’s Command.
JOHN ANDERSON
To Our Chancellor of Great Britain:
Our Master or Keeper of the Rolls
or Records: and Our Justices of
Appeal.
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