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Before the Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793 came into force on 8 April 1793, acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be the year before a particular act was passed.
An Act for securing the Estates of Papists, conforming to the Protestant Religion, against the Disabilities created by several Acts of Parliament relating to Papists; and for rendering more effectual the several Acts of Parliament made for vesting in the Two Universities, in that Part of Great Britain called England, the Presentations of ...
An Act to extend the Time for making Enrolments under the Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Land for Charitable Uses," [f] and to explain and amend the said Act. (Repealed by Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42))
For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the lists of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland
For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of ...
An Act to continue until Three Months after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, and amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, [v] for making more effectual Provision for preventing the current Gold Coin of the Realm from being paid or accepted for a greater Value than the current Value of such Coin; for preventing any Note ...
By 1629 all proceedings other than the acts themselves disappeared from the rolls and from 1759 the titles of private acts disappeared too. Enrolment of public acts on manuscript parchment rolls continued until 1850. [1] The longest Act of Parliament in the form of a scroll is an act regarding taxation passed in 1821. It is nearly a quarter of ...
Scott based the name on a scene in William Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 1 (Act 2, Scene 4), set in the gardens of the Temple Church, where a number of noblemen and a lawyer pick red or white roses to symbolically display their loyalty to the Lancastrian or Yorkist faction respectively. During Shakespeare's time, the conflict was simply ...