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Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History).After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval by the two Convocations, and stating that 'nothing more conduceth to the peace of this nation, nor to the honour of our religion and the propagation thereof, than an universal agreement in the public worship of Almighty God.' The Act directs that:All and singular ministers in any cathedral, collegiate or parish church or chapel or other place of public worship within this realm of England, d...
uniform act
uniform act : an act (as the Uniform Commercial Code) sponsored by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws that is intended to be enacted by each individual state with or without changes ...
uniform
uniform : of, relating to, or based on a uniform act ...
simultaneous death act
simultaneous death act : an act providing for the disposition of property or insurance benefits when there is no sufficient evidence that persons (as spouses) died other than simultaneously (as in an accident) NOTE: The simultaneous death act is a uniform act that has been adopted by most states. It covers situations where the title to or transfer of property depends on priority of death. In general, for determining the disposal of property, each decedent is considered to have survived the other, and an insured individual is considered to have survived a beneficiary. ...
Act of uniformity
Act of uniformity, means any of several 16th and 17th Century acts mandating uniform religious practices in England and Ireland, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 35.Act of uniformity, 14 Car. 2, c. 4 (1662), which enacts that the Prayer Book, scheduled thereto, shall be used in churches, and applies as to such Book the penalties of the earlier Acts of Uniformity, 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 1 (1548), 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 1 (1551), and 1 Eliz. C. 2 (1558). See UNIFORMITY....
Public Order Act, 1936
Public Order Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 6). An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of limitary or similar character, and to make further provision for the preservation of public order on the occasion of public processions and meetings and in public places.S. 1.-Prohibition of uniform in connection with political objects.S. 2.-Prohibition of quasi-military organizations.S. 3.-Confers powers for the preservation of public order on the occasion of processions.S. 4.-Prohibition of offensive weapons at public meetings and processions.S. 5.-Prohibition of offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace.S. 6.-Amendment of Public Meeting Act, 1908; see PUBLIC MEETING.S. 7.-Enforcement.S. 8.-Application to Scotland.S. 9.-Interpretation.S. 10.-Short title and extent.A person who commits an offence under s. 2 is liable on summary conviction to a maximum of 6 months' imprisonment ...
Uniformity of Process Act
Uniformity of Process Act (English) (2 Wm. 4, c. 39), by which personal actions, therefore commenced by different processes in the Courts of King's Bench, Exchequer, and Common Pleas were first commenced by one process applicable to all three courts alike. See LATITAT; QUO MINUS....
Local and Personal Acts
Local and Personal Acts. (English) See ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. Provisions in local and personal Acts givings double and treble costs, and allowing the genera lissue to be pleaded, and special matter to be given in evidence, are repealed by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97, ss. 1, 3. The same Act provides for uniformity of notice of action in such actions-one month in all cases-and equalizes the periods of limitation under such Acts. See LIMITATION, STATUTES OF. By the Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 9, re-enacting 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, every statute made after 1850 is to be taken to be a public one, and judicially noticed as such, unless the contrary be expressly declared. Interpretation Act, 1888, s. 9.Some Public and General Acts contain provisions for the alteration by Regulations, Statutory or Provisional Order, or otherwise, of local Acts in conformity with the general enactment, e.g., (English) Land Drainage, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo.5, c. 44); see s. 41; London Traffic Act, 1924; (English) Rating and Valuati...
Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845
Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (English) (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20), and Railways Clauses Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 92). These Acts contain general provisions as to the construction and management of railways, and were passed for the purposes of (1) avoiding the necessity of repeating such provisions in the special Acts by which each railway company is incorporated; and (2) securing uniformity in the provisions themselves. The Act of 1845 applies to all companies incorporated after its passing, except as expressly excepted by any special Act; the Act of 1863 applies only if expressly incorporated in a special Act....
Five-mile Act
Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from thence, repealed (after long disuse) by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to take the oath of non-resistance imposed by the Act on all who had not subscribed the Act of Uniformity, were forbidden to come within five miles of a corporate town, and non-conformists were forbidden to teach in any school under heavy penalties; repealed by 52 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 1.A 1665 Act prohibiting Puritan minister from teach-ing or coming within fix miles any town where they had held of the if they refused to pledges that they would not seek to overturn the church of England. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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