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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-act-1877/section-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/40-41/41",
  "legislation_title": "Crown Office Act 1877",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-office-act-1877",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Definitions.",
  "text": "In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following expressions have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them:\n“Great Seal” means the Great Seal of the United Kingdom:\n“Document to which this Act applies” means any writ, commission, letters patent, letters close, or document of such a character, or belonging to such a class, as would at the date of the passing of this Act, be required to be or usually would be authenticated by being passed under the Great Seal:\n“Crown Office” means the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/40-41/41/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:16.272801+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}