The number shown by each act's title is its chapter number. Acts are cited using this number, preceded by the years of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the act concerning assay passed in 1783 is cited as "23 & 24 Geo. 3 c. 23", meaning the 23rd act passed during the session that started in the 23rd year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 24th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "40 Geo. 3" rather than "40 Geo. III"). Acts of the reign of Elizabeth I are formally cited without a regnal numeral in the Republic of Ireland.
Acts passed by the Parliament of Ireland did not have a short title; however, some of these acts have subsequently been given a short title by acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, or acts of the Oireachtas. This means that some acts have different short titles in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland respectively. Official short titles are indicated by the flags of the respective jurisdictions.
A number of the acts included in this list are still in force in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland. Because these two jurisdictions are entirely separate, the version of an act in force in one may differ from the version in force in the other; similarly, an act may have been repealed in one but not in the other.
A number of acts passed by the Parliament of England also extended to Ireland during this period.
2 John (1200)
Fortification of castles
Outlawry
Dublin Charter from King John
5 John (1204)
Writs issued for a grant of an aid or subsidy
Novel disseisin
6 John (1204)
Fairs Act 1204[1] Erection of castle and fortifications at Dublin; establishment of fairs at Donnybrook, Waterford and Limerick.
Writs made current; their limitation
9 John (1207)
King's writs and pleas of the Crown
Irish robbers, etc., to be dealt with according to the law of England
Lands held of the King in chief: alienation without licence
No seneschal to be Justice where franchises to be tried
Collection of the “Fifteenth” (taxation)
Resumption and reletting lands
Fees of justices, etc., payable at end of term
22 Edw. 1 (1294)
Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to sell merchandise, goods, chattels and debts of merchants and other foreigners
Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to make provision that all merchants who export from Ireland wool, hides, etc., have sufficient security not to export them to France
King commands that the money arising from the issues of Ireland be employed for sending corn, wines, meat and other victuals from Ireland to Wales
Export duties during war for wools, hides, etc.
23 Edw. 1 (1295)
Dublin murage
25 Edw. 1 (1297)
Division of counties and better rule of the realm
Dublin murage
26 Edw. 1 (1297)
Export duties during war for wools, skins, hides, etc.
27 Edw. 1 (1299)
Against false money and for regulation of the currency
Money
Ordinances made as to Peter de Bermyngham having additional forces against the Irish felons, etc.
Ban on use of foreign base coins (pollards and crokards)
Application in Ireland of Statute on Justices of Assize
28 Edw. 1 (1300)
Custom of Ireland as to goods of testator
Export of silver
Money raised to finance suppression of rebellion in Scotland
Ban on use of foreign base coins (pollards and crokards)
The counties of Ireland are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level. The number of counties varied depending on the time period, however thirty-two is the traditionally accepted and used number.
Town commissioners were elected local government bodies that existed in urban areas in Ireland from the 19th century until 2002. Larger towns with commissioners were converted to urban districts by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, with the smaller commissions continuing to exist beyond partition in 1922. The idea was a standardisation of the improvement commissioners established in an ad-hoc manner for particular towns in Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth century. The last town commissioners in Northern Ireland were abolished in 1962. In the Republic of Ireland, the remaining commissions became town councils in 2002, and abolished in 2014.
In Ireland, the term city has somewhat differing meanings in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
"Pre-Union Irish Statutes". Irish Statute Book. Attorney General of Ireland. Retrieved 13 October 2012. (Index includes medieval "royal ordinances and similar documents that are recognised as having the force and effect of an Act of Parliament".[2])
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