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The Treaty of Wallingford, also known as the Treaty of Winchester or the Treaty of Westminster, was an agreement reached in England in the summer of 1153. It effectively ended a civil war known as the Anarchy (1135–54), caused by a dispute over the English crown between King Stephen and Empress Matilda .
Treaty of Westminster (1153), also known as the Treaty of Wallingford; Treaty of Westminster (1462), also known as the Treaty of Westminster-Ardtornish; Treaty of Westminster (1511), an alliance during the War of the League of Cambrai; Treaty of Westminster (1527), an alliance during the War of the League of Cognac; Treaty of Westminster (1654 ...
At that time, the Parliament of the United Kingdom also repealed ss 4 and 7(1) of the Statute of Westminster as applied to Canada. [20] The Statute of Westminster, as amended, remains a part of the constitution of Canada by virtue of section 52(2)(b) of and the schedule to the Constitution Act, 1982. The Newfoundland Terms of Union expressly ...
Treaty of Westminster: Treaty of alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France. 1516 Peace of Noyon: Divides Italy between France and Spain. 1516 Treaty of Fribourg: Perpetual Peace (1516) signed between the Old Swiss Confederacy and France. 1517 Treaty of Rouen: Attempts to renew the Auld Alliance. 1518 ...
For a simple Act, it had a significant effect. Section 2 of the Statute of Westminster abrogated the effect of the Colonial Laws Validity Act of 1865, and adopting it meant that laws made by the Parliament of Australia which were repugnant to British laws were no longer invalid. Section 4 of the Statute provided that laws made by the Parliament ...
The Anglo-Prussian Alliance was a military alliance created by the Westminster Convention between Great Britain and Prussia that lasted formally between 1756 and 1762, during the Seven Years' War. The alliance allowed Britain to concentrate most of its efforts against the colonial possessions of the French -led coalition while Prussia bore the ...
The Statute of Westminster of 1275 , also known as the Statute of Westminster I, codified the existing law in England, into 51 chapters. Chapter 5 (which mandates free elections) is still in force in the United Kingdom [ 1 ] and the Australian state of Victoria [ 2 ] whilst part of Chapter 1 remains in force in New Zealand . [ 3 ]
An act to revive and continue the bounties granted by an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, [ag] for encouraging the fisheries carried on at Newfoundland and parts adjacent, from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions in Europe; to continue so much of an act, made in the thirty-third year of the ...