Larceny Act 1827

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Larceny Act 1827
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith.
Citation 7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 29
Territorial extent  England and Wales [a]
Dates
Royal assent 21 June 1827
Commencement 1 July 1827 [b]
Repealed1 November 1861
Other legislation
Repealed by Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861
Relates to
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Larceny Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 29) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments related to larceny in England and Wales.

Contents

The act was one of Peel's Acts which consolidated, repealed and replaced a large number of existing statutes. The enactments replaced by the act were repealed by the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 27).

Similar provisions were made for Ireland by the Larceny (Ireland) Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 55).

Background

In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliament remain in force until expressly repealed. Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England , published in the late 18th-century, raised questions about the system and structure of the common law and the poor drafting and disorder of the existing statute book. [1]

In 1806, the Commission on Public Records passed a resolution requesting the production of a report on the best mode of reducing the volume of the statute book. [2] From 1810 to 1825, The Statutes of the Realm was published, providing for the first time the authoritative collection of acts. [2] In 1816, both Houses of Parliament, passed resolutions that an eminent lawyer with 20 clerks be commissioned to make a digest of the statutes, which was declared "very expedient to be done." However, this was never done. [3]

In 1822, Sir Robert Peel entered the cabinet as home secretary and in 1826 introduced a number of reforms to the English criminal law, which became known as Peel's Acts. This included efforts to modernise, consolidate and repeal provisions from a large number of earlier statutes, including: [4]

Subsequent developments

In 1827, Peel's Acts were passed to modernise, consolidate and repeal provisions of the criminal law of England and Wales, including:

In 1828, parallel bills for Ireland to Peel's Acts were introduced, becoming: [5]

In 1828, the Offences Against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31) was passed, which consolidated enactments relating to offences against the person and repealed for England and Wales almost 60 related enactments. In 1829, the Offences Against the Person (Ireland) Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 34) was passed, which consolidated enactments relating to offences against the person and repealed for Ireland almost 60 enactments relating to the criminal law of Ireland.

In 1861, bills were introduced, drafted by Charles Sprengel Greaves to mirror Peel's Acts, to consolidate and modernise the criminal law across: [6]

In 1861, the Criminal Consolidation Acts were passed for that purpose:

Repeal

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 95).

Notes

  1. ↑ Section 76.
  2. ↑ Section 1.

References

  1. ↑ Farmer, Lindsay (2000). "Reconstructing the English Codification Debate: The Criminal Law Commissioners, 1833-45" . Law and History Review. 18 (2): 397–425. doi:10.2307/744300. ISSN   0738-2480. JSTOR   744300.
  2. 1 2 Ilbert, Courtenay (1901). Legislative methods and forms. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 57. Retrieved 9 September 2024.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. ↑ Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner (5 June 1967). "Consolidation Bills". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . Vol. 283. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. col. 179.
  4. ↑ Britain, Great (1829). The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1827-. H.M. statute and law printers. p. 436.
  5. ↑ Companion to the Almanac, Or Yearbook of General Information for ... 1835. p. 161.
  6. ↑ Britain, Great (1861). Statutes at Large ...: (37 v.) A collection of the public general statutes, 1833-1869. p. 454.
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