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Navigation acts

Navigation acts, restricting the import or export of goods except in British bottoms, i.e., in ships the owners of which

Six Acts

Six Acts (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, cc. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9), passed to put down

by its extension to societies of associated congregations, such as those of the Wesleyan Methodists, to which body the Act of 1850 had been held in Re Hoghton Chapel, (1854) 2 WR 631, not to apply. Extended to

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Ranges Act, 1891

Ranges Act, 1891 (English) (54 & 55 Vict. c. 54), facilitated the acquisition of ranges by or for volunteer corps;

Septennial Act, 1715

Septennial Act, 1715 (English) (1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 38). By this Act (enlarging the time from three years)

Statutory Declarations Act, 1835

Statutory Declarations Act, 1835 (English) (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 62), which substitutes declarations for oaths in a large number

Suspensory Act, 1914

Suspensory Act, 1914 (English) (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 88), an Act which suspended the operation of the Government

Triennial Act Tried

Triennial Act Tried(6 W. & M. c. 2), which in 1694, after reciting that 'by the ancient laws and customs

Foreign Enlistment Act

Foreign Enlistment Act, 59 Geo. 3, c. 69 (as to which see Burton v. Pinkerton, (1867) LR 2 Ex 340), repealed

Infant Settlements Act, 1855

27(3), but so that a legal estate in land is not vested in an infant. By virtue of the Act of 1855 every infant (if a male of twenty, or if a female of seventeen years, s. 4, … the Chancery Division of the High Court, make a valid settlement or contract for a settlement of property. The Act gets rid entirely of the disability arising from infancy, though not of disability on any other ground, Seaton

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