ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1863.
Vesting of Admiralty Estates.
lands, tenements, and hereditaments respectively which shall be vested in them under or by virtue of this Ordinance with their respective appurtenances either by public auction or private contract, and in due form of law to convey, surrender, assign, or make over or to grant or demise the same respectively, as the case may require, to any person or persons who shall be willing to purchase or take the same respectively, and also to do any other act, matter, or thing in relation to any such messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments which they or he shall deem beneficial for the public service in relation thereto or for the better management thereof which might be done by any person or persons having a like interest in any such messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments.
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Power to sue and distrain in respect of such lands given to Commissioners, of suit.
6. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, or the Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to bring, prosecute, and maintain any action, suit, and as to costs or other proceeding at Law or in Equity, for recovering possession of any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, by this Ordinance vested in them or him as aforesaid, and to distrain or sue for any arrears of rent which shall have or shall become due for or in respect thereof, under any demise from the said Commissioners or Lord High Admiral, or any person or persons on their or his behalf, or on behalf of Her Majesty, and also to bring, prosecute, or maintain or to defend any other action or suit in respect of, or in relation to, the said messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any trespass or encroachment committed thereon, or damage or injury done thereto; and that in every such action or suit the said Commissioners shall be called "The Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland," without naming them; and no such action or suit shall abate, by the death, resignation, or removal of such Commissioners, or any of them, or of such Lord High Admiral, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: And the said Commissioners, or Lord High Admiral shall be entitled to recover costs for and on behalf of Her Majesty, where judgment shall be given for the Crown, and shall be liable to pay costs where judgment shall be given against the Crown, in any such action, suit, or other proceeding in like manner, and subject to the same rules and provisions as though such action, suit, or other proceeding had been had between subject and subject.