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The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the City of Edinburgh v. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department [1862] UKHL 4_Macqueen_447 (23 February 1862)

[1862] UKHL 4_Macqueen_447House of Lords1862

“For time beyond which the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, the Castle of Edinburgh has been the property of the Crown.”

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