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The Riot Act 1411 [1] (13 Hen. 4.c. 7) was an act of the Parliament of England.. The words from "and the same justices" to "made to the contrary" were repealed by section 1 of, and schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.
The American Service-Members' Protection Act, known informally as The Hague Invasion Act [1] (ASPA, Title 2 of Pub. L. 107–206 (text), H.R. 4775, 116 Stat. 820, enacted August 2, 2002) is a United States federal law described as "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an ...
Statutes often repeal or amend earlier laws, and extensive cross-referencing is required to determine what laws are in force at any given time. [ 2 ] The United States Code is the result of an effort to make finding relevant and effective statutes simpler by reorganizing them by subject matter, and eliminating expired and amended sections.
5), also known as the Statute of 13 Elizabeth, was an Act of Parliament in England, which laid the foundations for fraudulent transactions to be unwound when a person had gone insolvent or bankrupt. In the United Kingdom , the provisions contained in the 1571 Act were replaced by Part IX of the Law of Property Act 1925 , which has since been ...
The law of most of the states is based on the common law of England; the notable exception is Louisiana, whose civil law is largely based upon French and Spanish law.The passage of time has led to state courts and legislatures expanding, overruling, or modifying the common law; as a result, the laws of any given state invariably differ from the laws of its sister states.
(Fish) c. 9 Justices of peace shall be conservators of the statutes made touching salmons. — repealed by Salmon Fishery Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 109) (Gaol delivery) c. 10 Two learned men in the law shall be in commission of gaol delivery. — repealed by Repeal of Acts Concerning Importation Act 1822 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 64)
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
Since the passing of the statute, an estate given to a man and the heirs of his body has been known as an estate tail, or an estate in fee tail (feudum talliatum). The word tail is derived from the French tailler , to cut, the inheritance being by the statute cut down and confined to the heirs of the body.