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    • Thirteenth Century
      • 1285: 13 Edward 1: The Statute of Winchester.
      • 1297: 25 Edward 1 c. 1: Confirmation of the Charters
    • Fourteenth Century
      • 1360: 34 Edward 3 c.1: Justices of the Peace
      • 1379: 2 Richard 2 c. 3: Debtors’ fraudulent deeds.
      • 1392: 16 Richard c.5: Statute of Praemunire
    • Fifteenth Century
      • 1400: 2 Henry 4 c.15: De heretico comburendo
      • 1403: 5 Henry 4 c.4: Multiplication of Gold or Silver
      • 1411: 13 Henry 4 c.6: Against Gally half-pence and foreign money.
      • 1411: 13 Henry 4 c.7: The Riot Act
    • Sixteenth Century
      • 1513: 5 Henry 8 c.6: Relieving Surgeons of service.
      • 1530: 22 Henry 8 c. 10: The Egyptians Act.
      • 1531: 23 Henry 8 c.2: For the making of Gaols within the Realm where none be.
      • 1533: 25 Henry 8 c.6: The Buggery Act
      • 1535-6: 27 Henry 8 c.19: An Act limiting an order for sanctuaries and sanctuary persons
      • 1535: 27 Henry 8 c. 6: For the increase of horses.
      • 1535: 27 Henry 8 c.25: Punishing Sturdy Vagabonds and Beggars.
      • 1539: 31 Henry 8 c.8: Proclamation by the Crown
      • 1541-2: 33 Henry 8 c.8: The Act against Conjurations, Witchcraft, Sorcery and Enchantments
      • 1542: 34 & 35 Henry 8 c.4: Statute of Bankrupts.
      • 1563: 5 Elizabeth 1 c.16: An Act against Conjurations, Inchantments and Witchcraft
      • 1580-1: 23 Elizabeth c.2: Against seditious words and rumours.
      • 1597: 39 Elizabeth c.6: Reforming abuses of charity.
    • Seventeenth Century
      • 1601: 43 Elizabeth 1 c.2: Act for the relief of the poor
      • 1601: 43 Elizabeth 1 c.4: Charitable Uses Act
      • 1604: 1 James 1 c.12: An Act against Witchcraft
      • 1604: 1 James 1 c.13: Privilege of Parliament Act
      • 1604: 1 James 1 c.31: For the charitable relief and ordering of persons infested with the plague
      • 1605: 3 James 1 c.1: Observance of the fifth of November Act
      • 1605: 3 James 1 c.21: Restraining abuses by Players
      • 1623: 21 James 1 c.27: To prevent the destroying and murthering of bastard children
      • 1661: 13 Charles 2 s.2, c.5: Tumultuous Petitioning Act
      • 1666: 19 Charles 2 c.2: Fire of London Disputes Act.
      • 1677: 29 Charles 2 c.9: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act
      • 1679: 31 Charles 2 c.2: Habeas Corpus Act
      • 1688: 1 William & Mary s.1, c.30: For the multiplication of Gold and Silver
      • 1689: 2 William & Mary c.6: Absence of King William Act
      • 1689: 2 William & Mary s.2, c.7: Election of members for the Cinque ports
      • 1689: 2 William & Mary, s.2, c.5: Sale of distrained goods
      • 1694: 5 & 6 William & Mary c.6: Concerning Royal Mines
      • 1696: 7 & 8 William 3 c.35. An act for regulating marriages
      • 1697: 8 & 9 William 3 c.27: An act for the more effectual relief of creditors in cases of escapes
      • 1699: 10 & 11 William 3 c.25: To Encourage the Trade to Newfoundland
    • Eighteenth Century
      • 1701: 1 Anne s.1 c.25: An act for the relief of poor prisoners for debt
      • 1701: 1 Anne stat 2 c.6: Preventing escapes out of the Queen’s Bench and Fleet prisons.
      • 1704: 2 & 3 Anne c.16: An act for the discharge of Insolvent debtors
      • 1705: 4 Anne c.17: Frauds frequently committed by bankrupts.
      • 1705: 6 Anne c.22: Explaining the Bankrupts Frauds Act
      • 1706: 5 Anne c.8: Union with Scotland Act.
      • 1706: 6 Anne c.9: Escape from Prisons
      • 1708: 7 Anne c.12: Diplomatic Privileges Act
      • 1710: 8 Anne c.19 / c.21: The Statute of Anne
      • 1711: 10 Anne c. 8: Princess Sophia’s Precedence Act
      • 1711: 10 Anne c.15: Repealing the description of a bankrupt
      • 1712: 10 Anne c.20: An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1713: 12 Anne c.15: Making perpetual the act preventing false returns.
      • 1713: 12 Anne Session 2 c.17: The Usury Act
      • 1714: 1 George 1 Session 2 c.5: The Riot Act
      • 1715: 1 George 1 Session 2 c.38: The Septennial Act
      • 1717: 3 George 1.
      • 1717: 4 George 1 c.11: The Transportation Act.
      • 1717: 4 George 1 c.12: Making perpetual the preferring of ships.
      • 1718: 5 George 1 c.7: Continuing the tobacco act
      • 1719: 6 George 1 c.22: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1719: 6 George 1 c.5: Irish Dependency Act
      • 1720: 7 George 1 stat. 1 c.31: Explaining bankrupts acts
      • 1721: 8 George 1 c.10: Repeal of Quarentine Act Clauses
      • 1721: 8 George 1 c.24: The Piracy Act.
      • 1722: 9 George 1 c.28: Suppression of Southwark Mint
      • 1722: 9 George 1 c.7: Workhouse Test Act
      • 1722: 9 George 1 c.9: Norwich officers’ elections.
      • 1723: 9 George 1 c.22: The Black Act
      • 1724: 11 George 1 c.21: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1724: 11 George 1 c.22: Suppression of Wapping Mint
      • 1725: 12 George 1 c.29: Preventing frivolous and vexatious arrests.
      • 1725: 12 George 1 c.30: Renewing the Black Act.
      • 1726: 13 George 1 c.8: The South Sea slave trade act
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.20: Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.21: Trials of murders
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.22: For the relief of imprisoned debtors.
      • 1729: 2 George 2 c.27: The Regency Act
      • 1730: 3 George 2 c.27: Explanation of debtors relief act
      • 1731: 4 George 2 c.21: Naturalizing foreign protestants.
      • 1731: 4 George 2 c.26: Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act
      • 1731: 4 George 2 c.33: Obviating doubts about the Penny Post
      • 1732: 5 George 2 c.18: Qualification of Justices of the Peace
      • 1732: 5 George 2 c.19: Quarter Sessions Appeals
      • 1732: 5 George 2 c.7: Recovery of American Debts
      • 1732: 6 George 2 c.26: Broad Coin Act.
      • 1733: 6 George 2 c.13: The Molasses Act
      • 1733: 6 George 2 c.31: Bastardy Act
      • 1734: 7 George 2 c.24: The Histories of Thuanus
      • 1735: 8 George 2 c.13: Engraving Copyright Act
      • 1735: 8 George 2 c.30: Quartering soldiers during elections
      • 1735: 9 George 2 c.5: The Witchcraft Act
      • 1736: 10 George 2 c.26: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1737: 10 George 2 c.28: The Licensing Act
      • 1738: 11 George 2 c.9: Extending the 1737 Relief Act
      • 1739: 12 George 2: c.29: Setting county rates.
      • 1740: 13 George 2 c. 7: The Plantation, or Naturalization, Act.
      • 1740: 13 George 2 c.17: Encouragement of seamen
      • 1741: 14 George 2 c.34: Continuance of debtor and cochineal acts
      • 1741: 14 George 2 c.42: Preserving public roads.
      • 1741: 15 George 2 c.24: Justices Commitment Act
      • 1742: 16 George 2 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
      • 1746: 19 George 2, c.32: Amending the Bankrupts laws.
      • 1747: 21 George 2 c.31: Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
      • 1748: 21 George 2 c.33: Continuing laws for the relief of debtors
      • 1749: 22 George 2 c.24: Inconveniences of hue and cry.
      • 1750: 23 George 2 c.31: African Company Act.
      • 1751: 24 George 2 c.53: The Currency Act
      • 1751: 25 George 2 c.37: The Murder Act
      • 1753: 26 George 2 c.26: Jewish Naturalization Act.
      • 1753: 26 George 2 c.22: Establishing the British Museum
      • 1753: 26 George 2 c.33: Prevention of Clandestine Marriages
      • 1754: 27 George 2 c.1: Repeal of the Jewish Naturalization Act
      • 1756: 29 George 2 c.18: To obviate a doubt concerning the relief of insolvent debtors
      • 1760: 1 George 3 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
      • 1760: 33 George 2 c.4: Continuing wine- and spirit-making prohibitions
      • 1760: 33 George 2 c.5: Continuing Imports from Ireland.
      • 1761: 2 George 3 c.2: Repeal of compulsion clauses in Relief Act
      • 1762: 3 George 3 c.6: Regulation of Bread in Scotland.
      • 1762: 3 George 3 c.8: Employment of Former Soldiers
      • 1763: 3 George 3 c. 15: Freeman (Admission) Act
      • 1764: 4 George 3 c.15: The Sugar Act
      • 1764: 4 George 3 c.34: The Currency Act
      • 1764: 4 George 3 c.41: Kirby, Westmorland, Small Debts Act
      • 1765: 5 George 3 c.12: The Stamp Act
      • 1765: 5 George 3 c.33: The Quartering Act
      • 1766: 6 George 3 c.11: Repeal of the Stamp Act
      • 1766: 6 George 3 c.12: American Colonies Act
      • 1766: 7 George 3 c. 18: Enabling the British Museum to exchange, sell or dispose of, duplicates.
      • 1766: 7 George 3 c.46: The Townshend Revenue Act
      • 1771: 11 George 3 c.55: New Shoreham Election Corruption
      • 1772: 12 George 3 c. 11: Royal Marriages Act
      • 1773: 13 George 3 c.21: British Nationality Act
      • 1773: 13 George 3 c.42: James Cox’s Musaeum
      • 1773: 13 George 3 c.44: The Tea Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.19: Boston Port Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.20: Discharged Prisoners Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.39: Administration Of Justice Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.45: Massachusetts Government Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.54: The Quartering Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.59: Health of Prisoners Act.
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.83: The Quebec Act
      • 1774: 14 George 3 c.84: Bills of Naturalization
      • 1775: 15 George 3 c.28: Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act.
      • 1775: 15 George 3 c.31: Encouragement of Fisheries
      • 1776: 16 George 3 c.43: Hulks Act
      • 1777: 17 George 3 c.9: High Treason in America
      • 1778: 18 George 3 c.62: Continuing the Hulks Act
      • 1779: 19 George 3, c.14: Foreign Seamen.
      • 1780: 20 George 3 c.63: Indemnification of suppressors of the Gordon Riots
      • 1780: 20 George 3 c.64: Preventing mischiefs after the Gordon Riots
      • 1781: 21 George 3 c.1: Extending prevention of mischiefs after the Gordon Riots
      • 1781: 21 George 3 c.28: Duties on Bugles and Rum
      • 1781: 21 George 3 c.28: Portuguese Trade
      • 1781: 21 George 3 c.53: Validating Marriages
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.25: Prohibiting the Ransoming of Ships
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.26: Quartering Foreign Troops
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.42: Parliament Act (Crewe’s Act).
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.46: American Colonies Peace Act
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.53: Repeal of the Irish Dependency Act
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.6: Militia Act
      • 1782: 22 George 3 c.70: Military Postage
      • 1783: 23 George 3 c.28: Irish Appeals Act
      • 1783: 23 George 3 c.51: Repeal of the Egyptians Act
      • 1783: 23 George 3 c.65: African Company of Merchants Act
      • 1783: 23 George 3 c.69: Military Postage
      • 1783: 24 George 3 c.6: Post between Britain and Ireland
      • 1784: 24 George 3 c.3: East India Company Debts
      • 1785: 25 George 3 c.44: Regulating insurances on ships
      • 1786: 26 George 3 c.38: Time of Imprisonment of Debtors
      • 1786: 26 George 3 c.44: Relief of imprisoned debtors.
      • 1788: 28 George 3 c.48: The Chimney Sweepers Act.
      • 1788: 28 George 3 c.55: For the protection of Stocking Frames.
      • 1788: 28 George 3 c.55: Protection of Stocking Frames
      • 1789: 29 George 3 c.67: Enforcing laws concerning gaols.
      • 1790: 30 George 3 c.48: The (Women’s) Treason Act.
      • 1790: 30 George 3 c.76: Maintenance of Hans Town, Chelsea.
      • 1791: 31 George 3 c.31: The Constitutional Act
      • 1792: 32 George 3 c.60: The Libel Act
      • 1793: 33 George 3 c.13: Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act
      • 1793: 33 George 3 c.26: Supply of Mariners and Seamen
      • 1793: 33 George 3 c.5: Renewing the Lords Act of 1758
      • 1794: 34 George 3 c.54: Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act
      • 1794: 34 George 3 c.61: Bakers Working on Sundays Act
      • 1795: 36 George 3 c.7: Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act
      • 1795: 36 George 3 c.8 : Seditious Assemblies Act
      • 1797: 37 George 3 c.104: Regulating the shipping of slaves in British vessels from the coast of Africa.
      • 1797: 37 George 3 c.119: Repeal of American Debts Act clauses relating to slaves.
      • 1798 – 1799: 39 George 3.
        • 1799: 39 George 3 c.15: Suspension of Habeas Corpus
        • 1799: 39 George 3 c.37: Offences on the High Seas
        • 1799: 39 George 3 c.45: Burning in the Hand
        • 1799: 39 George 3 c.51: Continuing legislation concerning Transportation
        • 1799: 39 George 3 c.52: Continuing legislation concerning Penitentiary Houses.
        • 1799: 39 George 3 c.76: Conveyance of Ship Letters
        • 1799: 39 George 3 c.80: Regulating the slave trade
      • 1798: 38 George 3 c. 78: Newspaper Publication Act.
    • Nineteenth Century
      • 1800: 39 & 40 George 3 c.106: The Combination Act
      • 1800: 39 & 40 George 3 c.93: The Treason Act
      • 1801: 41 George 3 c.52: House of Commons (Disqualifications) Act
      • 1803: 43 George 3 c.141: Justices Protection Act
      • 1803: 43 George 3 c.58: Lord Ellenborough’s Act
      • 1805: 45 George 3 c.127: Vesting the Townleian Collection in the British Museum.
      • 1805: 45 George 3 c.3: Remedying omissions in the insolvents relief act of 1804.
      • 1806: 46 George 3 c. 61: Postage Act.
      • 1806: 46 George 3 c.37: The Witnesses Act
      • 1807: 47 George 3 sess. 1 c.36: Abolition of Slave Trade
      • 1807: 47 George 3 sess. 2 c.36: Enabling the British Museum to exchange, sell or dispose of parts of the collections.
      • 1808: 48 George 3 c.34: Prohibition of exportation of Cotton Wool.
      • 1808: 48 George 3 c.37: Validating certain Orders in Council.
      • 1808: 48 George 3 c.85: Trade with the United States.
      • 1810: 50 George 3
        • 1810: 50 George 3 c.74: Irish Post Office
        • 1810: 50 George 3 c.9: Bounties on Plantation Sugar continued
        • 1810: 50 George 3 c.10: Customs Fraud
        • 1810: 50 George 3 c.66: Judge Advocate General’s Postage
      • 1812 – 1813: 53 George 3
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.11: Drawback on Chocolate
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.13: Postage Duty Exemption
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.14: Regulation of Royal Household during Illness
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.5: Continuation of Coin and Note Value Act
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.1: Sugar in Beer continuation
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.2: Starch making
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.3: Jamaica and Saint Domingo Amendment
        • 1812: 53 George 3 c.12: West Indies Imports
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.19: Tokens Act Amendment (1)
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.21: Subsistence of Prisoners
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.72: Manchester Justices Act.
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.102: Establishing the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.112: Prosecutions relating to the Slave Trade.
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.114: Tokens Act Amendment (2)
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.160: Doctrine of the Trinity
        • 1813: 53 George 3 c.162: Imprisonment of Felons
      • 1812: 52 George 3 c. 13: Amending the 1811 Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
      • 1812: 52 George 3 c.16: The Frame-Breaking Act
      • 1812: 52 George 3 c.160: Parochial Relief for Debtor Prisoners.
      • 1813: 54 George 3 c.23: Amending the Insolvent Debtors Relief Act.
      • 1813: 54 George 3 c.42: The Frame-Breaking Act
      • 1814: 54 George 3 c.145: Corruption of Blood Act
      • 1816: 56 George 3 c.102: Further powers to the debtors’ court.
      • 1816: 56 George 3 c.68: Recoinage Act
      • 1816: 56 George 3 c.99: The Elgin Marbles Act
      • 1817: 57 George 3 c.126: Punishment of Persons Destroying Stocking or Lace Frames.
      • 1817: 57 George 3 c.52: Deserted Tenements Act
      • 1817: 57 George 3 c.53: Murders outside British Dominions.
      • 1817: 57 George 3 c.75: Abolishing Public Whipping of Women
      • 1818: 58 George 3 c.49: Explanation of Slave Trade Amendments.
      • 1818: 58 George 3 c.98: Amending the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
      • 1819: 59 George 3 c.120: Registry of Colonial Slaves.
      • 1819: 59 George 3 c.46: Appeal of Murder Act
      • 1819: 59 George 3 c.97: Slave Trade Offences in Africa
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.1: Unlawful Drilling Act
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.2: Seizure of Arms
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.4: Misdemeanours Act
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.6: Seditious Meetings Act
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.8: Blasphemous and Seditious Libels
      • 1819: 60 George 3 & 1 George 4 c.9: Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act
      • 1820: 1 George 4 c.116: Repeal of Capital Offences
      • 1820: 1 George 4 c.50: Removal of Slaves from Bahamas to Demerara.
      • 1820: 1 George 4 c.57: Abolishing Whipping of Women
      • 1821: 1 & 2 George 4 c.17: Repeal of the Irish Witchcraft Act
      • 1822: 3 George 4 c.71: Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act
      • 1823: 4 George 4 c.48: Judgement of Death Act
      • 1823: 4 George 4 c.82: Temporary Removal of Convicts from the General Penitentiary
      • 1824: 5 George 4 c.19: Convicts on the Hulks
      • 1824: 5 George 4 c.60: Knight’s Bequest to the British Museum
      • 1824: 5 George 4 c.83: Vagrancy Act
      • 1825: 6 George 4 c.91: Repeal of the Bubble Act
      • 1827: 7 & 8 George 4 c.74: Treaty with Brazil for suppressing the Slave Trade
      • 1829: 10 George 4 c.22: Western Australia Act.
      • 1830: 11 George 4 & 1 William 4 c.55: Bounties on Seizures of Slaves
      • 1832: 2 & 3 William 4 c. 75: The Anatomy Act
      • 1833: 3 & 4 William 4 c.73: Abolition of Slavery Act.
      • 1835: 5 & 6 William 4 c.59: Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1835: 5 & 6 William 4 c.75: The Tithing of Turnips
      • 1836: 6 & 7 William 4 c.87: Ending Secular Jurisdictions
      • 1837: 1 Victoria c.3: Slavery Compensation Act
      • 1837: 1 Victoria c.53: Secular Jurisdiction (York and Ely)
      • 1837: 1 Victoria c.66: Cruelty to Animals (Ireland)
      • 1837: 7 William 4 & 1 Victoria c.23: Abolition of the Pillory
      • 1837: 7 William 4 & 1 Victoria c.91: Punishment of Death
      • 1837: 7 William 4 c.1: Suspension of Registrations
      • 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.38: Amending the Vagabonds Act.
      • 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.39: Treaty with Hanseatic Towns for suppressing the Slave Trade.
      • 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.67: Prisons in the West Indies.
      • 1838: 1 & 2 Victoria c.94: Public Records Act
      • 1839: 2 & 3 Victoria c.54: Custody of Infants
      • 1839: 2 & 3 Victoria c.57: Continuing Slave Trade Treaties
      • 1840: 3 & 4 Victoria c.29: Vaccination Extension Act
      • 1841: 4 & 5 Victoria, c.32: Amending the Vaccination Extension Act.
      • 1842: 5 & 6 Victoria c.23: Turnpike Acts (Ireland) Act
      • 1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.68: Theatre Regulation Act
      • 1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.69: Continuance of Turnpike Acts
      • 1843: 6 & 7 Victoria c.98: More effectual suppression of the Slave Trade
      • 1845: 8 & 9 Victoria c. 122: Amending Treaty with Brazil for suppressing the Slave Trade.
      • 1849: 12 & 13 Victoria c.92: Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1850: 13 & 14 Victoria c.59: Cruelty to Animals (Scotland)
      • 1852: 15 Victoria c.29: Enclosure of Kennington Common
      • 1853: 16 & 17 Victoria c.86: Liberated Africans in Sierrra Leone.
      • 1854: 17 & 18 Victoria c.33: Public Statues (Metropolis) Act.
      • 1854: 17 & 18 Victoria c.60: Amending Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1857: 20 & 21 Victoria c.83: Obscene Publications Act
      • 1857: 20 Victoria c.1: Amending time of Service in the Marines
      • 1857: 20 Victoria c.19: Relief of the Poor in Extra-parochial Places
      • 1858: 21 & 22 Victoria c.106: Government of India Act
      • 1858: 21 & 22 Victoria c.47: Amending the law of false pretences
      • 1858: 21 & 22 Victoria c.48: The Oaths Act.
      • 1858: 21 & 22 Victoria c.49: Jewish Relief Act.
      • 1858: 21 Victoria c.22: Abolition of Franchise Prisons
      • 1862: 25 Victoria c.18: Whipping of Juvenile Offenders
      • 1864: 27 & 28 Victoria c.117: The use of Metric Weights and Measures
      • 1865: 28 & 29 Victoria c. 63: Colonial Laws Validity Act
      • 1869: 32 & 33 Victoria c.62: Debtors Act
      • 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.76: Absconding Debtors
      • 1870: 33 & 34 Victoria c.93: Married Women’s Property Act
      • 1871: 34 Victoria c.17: Bank Holidays Act.
      • 1876: 39 & 40 Victoria c.77: Cruelty to Animals Act
      • 1880: 43 & 44 Victoria c.9: Definition of Time Act.
      • 1881: 44 & 45 Victoria c.61: Sunday Closing (Wales) Act.
      • 1882: 45 & 46 Victoria c.73: Ancient Monuments Protection Act
      • 1886: 49 & 50 Victoria c.16: Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act
      • 1887: 50 & 51 Victoria, c.29: Preventing the Fraudulent Sale of Margarine.
      • 1889: 52 & 53 Victoria c.52: Official Secrets Act
      • 1892: 55 & 56 Victoria c.46: Ancient Monuments Protection (Ireland) Act.
      • 1896: 59 & 60 Victoria c.1: Local Government (Elections) Act
      • 1896: 59 & 60 Victoria c.5: Poor Law Guardians (Ireland) (Women) Act
      • 1898: 61 & 62 Victoria c.39: Vagrancy Act
      • 1898: 61 & 62 Victoria c.53: Library Offences Act
    • Twentieth Century
      • 1900: 63 & 64 Victoria c.33: Wild Animals in Captivity Protection Act
      • 1900: 63 & 64 Victoria c.34: Ancient Monuments Protection Act
      • 1903: 3 Edward 7 c.1: St Patrick’s Day Holiday
      • 1903: 3 Edward 7 c.2: Light Locomotives (Ireland)
      • 1905: 5 Edward 7 c.13: The Aliens Act.
      • 1905: 5 Edward 7 c.2: Army (Annual) Act.
      • 1905: 5 Edward 7 c.3: Licensing (Ireland) Act.
      • 1906: 6 Edward 7 c.36: Musical Copyright Act.
      • 1907: 7 Edward 7 c.47: Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act.
      • 1908: 8 Edward 7 c.66: Public Meeting Act.
      • 1910: 10 Edward 7 & 1 George 5 c. 29: Accession Declaration Act
      • 1911: 1 & 2 George 5 c. 13: Parliament Act.
      • 1913: 3 & 4 George 5 c.4: Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act
      • 1914: 5 George 5 c.16: Royal Marines Act
      • 1916: 5 & 6 George 5 c.104. Military Service Act
      • 1916: 6 & 7 George 5 c.19: Amending the British North America Act
      • 1916: 6 & 7 George 5 c.51: Anzac (Restriction on Trade Use of Word)
      • 1916: 6 & 7 George 5, c.14: Summer Time Act.
      • 1916: 6 & 7 George 5, c.45: Time (Ireland) Act.
      • 1918: 7 & 8 George 5 c.64: Representation of the People Act
      • 1918: 8 & 9 George 5 c. 59: Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act
      • 1918: 8 & 9 George 5 c.47: Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act
      • 1919: 9 & 10 George 5 c.71: Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act.
      • 1922: 12 & 13 George 5 c.13: Empire Settlement Act.
      • 1925: 15 & 16 George 5 c.72: Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act
      • 1928: 18 & 19 George 5 c.12: Equal Franchise Act
      • 1936: 1 Edward 8 & 1 George 6 c.1: Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Munitions to Spain)
      • 1936: 1 Edward 8 & 1 George 6 c.6: Public Order Act
      • 1937: 1 Edward 8 & 1 George 6 c.19: Merchant Shipping (Spanish Frontiers Observation)
      • 1940: 3 & 4 George 6 c.53: Prolongation of Parliament Act.
      • 1951: 14 & 15 George 6 c. 33: Fraudulent Mediums Act
      • 1962: 10 & 11 Eliz. 2 c.34: Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act
    • Private, Local and Personal Acts
      • 1798: 38 George 3 local act 58: Lancashire Sessions Act
      • 1803: 43 George 3, local act 11: Amending Hans Town, Chelsea Maintenance Act
      • 1804: 44 George 3 local act 85: Removal of the prisoners in the Poultry Compter.
      • 1825: 6 George 4 local act 134: Tothill Fields Improvement Act
    • Privy Council Orders
      • 1760: Encouragement of Seamen
      • 1797: Suspension of cash payments by the Bank of England
    • Proclamations
      • 1759: For encouraging Seamen
      • 1763: American Territories
    • Irish Laws
      • 1586: 28 Elizabeth 1 c. 2: An Act against Witchcraft and Sorcerie.
      • 1634: 10 Charles 1 session 2 c.19: Trial of Murders Act
      • 1737: 11 George 2 c.6: Administration of Justice (Language) Act
    • Scottish Laws
      • 1563: Mary c.73: Anentis Witchcraft
  • Slavery Law
    • British Legislation on Africa and Slavery
    • Court Cases
      • 1690: Katherine Auker, Middlesex Sessions.
      • 1774: Anonymous, London Lord Mayors’ Court.

Australia & New Zealand

Thanks to the Australasian Legal Information Institute, nearly the entire legal history of Australia and its component states, and New Zealand, is available online, in various formats, but mainly in PDF for older material.

 

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