A ROYAL PRIVILEGE
* SIR ROBER*T HOUSTON’S ESTATE. CURIOUS JERSEY LAW. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 7. Sir Robert Houston having died without an heir, the enjoyment of his property for a year and a day is declared to be the privilege of the King by the Jersey Assize D’Heritage, the oldest Land Court in the world. The King is seigneur of the Fier du Roi, in which Sir Robert Houston’s Jersey property is situated.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
Sir Robert Houston, who died leaving a fortune estimated at £7.000,000, made his will in Jersey, where he claimed his domicile. This was expected to prove ft heaw blow to the British Exchequer, as no death duties are levied in Jersey. The newspaper the Sketch said that the highest legal authority had stated that the Jersey domicile completely protected the Houston estate from death duties, which were estimated to amount to £3.000,000. The Dailv Mail stated that the Treasury would probablv bring a test case in order to secure a ruling regarding a Channel Islands domicile.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19785, 10 May 1926, Page 9
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174A ROYAL PRIVILEGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19785, 10 May 1926, Page 9
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