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version of an act in force in one may differ from the version in force in the other; similarly, an act may have been repealed in one but not in the other.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.
c. 1 Reasons for want of profit from the King's lands.
c. 2 Officers not executing the law by force of arms.
c. 3 Corruption by King's Officers who ride in force so as to claim fees.
c. 4 Castles, etc., in the enemy's hands by default of the King's officers.
c. 5 Prohibition of fees paid for castles that no longer exist.
c. 6 Payment for victuals taken.
c. 7 Officers appointed, not sufficient to answer to the King.
c. 8 Costs of maintaining leased lands, etc., not allowed.
c. 9 Officers holding several offices.
c. 10 English lieges in Ireland ousted from their freeholds.
c. 11 Fee-farm lands retaken into the King's hands.
c. 12 The King's officers seize goods, etc., of a crown debtor.
c. 13 Officers not delivering back lands, etc., seized.
c. 14 Escheators' fees on unjust seizures.
c. 15 Persons have to answer in England for felonies in Ireland.
c. 16 Partial truces or peaces.
c. 17 Lands occupied by the Irish enemy during truces held by them thereafter.
c. 18 Proper maintenance of lands, etc.
c. 19 Warrants to distrain where terms for payment of debts granted.
c. 20 Abuses in election of sheriffs, etc.
c. 21 Fees to marshal by those arrested.
c. 22 Writs through malice, etc.
c. 23 King's officers take victuals, etc., without payment.
c. 24 Royal service compounded for in money (restriction in certain cases of feudal service attaching to land, etc.).
c. 25 Dwellers in marches (border areas with Irish enemy) be amerced (punished or fined) reasonably.
c. 26 Imprisonment without indictment and seizure of goods.
c. 27 Appointment of certain officials for ports, etc., as in England.
Observance in Ireland of 15 Edw. 3 St. 2.
16 & 17 Edw. 3 (1342-43)
King transmitted to his Treasurer and Barons a transcript of an ancient statute used in the Exchequer of England, as to the levying of Queen's gold, commanding its enrolment and observance in Ireland.
18 Edw. 3 (1344)
None to supply the Irish at war against the King.
23 Edw. 3 (1349)
Servants and labourers.
24 Edw. 3 (1349-50)
Magnates in England having lands in Ireland, to have there men at arms.
25 Edw. 3 (1351)
c. 1 Liberties, customs, franchises, etc., of the Holy Church to be enjoyed without interference: Great Charter confirmed.
c. 2 No one to keep kernes (foot-soldiers), etc., except in the marches (boundary with the native Irish) and then only at his own cost.
c. 3 Idlemen to have lands to farm.
c. 4 As to parley, etc., between marchers (those living on the boundary with native Irish) and the enemy.
c. 5 Chieftains to punish their own retainers, etc.
c. 6 One peace and one war throughout Ireland.
c. 7 Officers of franchises may pursue felons into geldable land and sheriffs may pursue into franchises.
c. 8 Fraudulent feoffments (granting of lands) void.
c. 9 Wardens of the peace in each county.
c. 10 Fee of Marshals of the Benches.
c. 11 No alliance between English and the English or Irish enemies.
c. 12 Receivers of felons to be imprisoned.
c. 13 English truce-breakers to be imprisoned.
c. 14 Statute of labourers to be sent to every sheriff, mayor, etc., for proclamation.
c. 15 English not to stir up war.
c. 16 Common law to be used by English, and not the Brehon law, or the march law.
c. 17 The King's officers not be hindered.
c. 18 Persons having lands in the march lands (border lands) to maintain and aid the marches, etc.
c. 19 Residents in England having lands in Ireland to contribute towards their defence.
c. 20 Robbers, malefactors, etc., not to be maintained.
c. 21 Serjeants of fee to make due execution.
c. 22 Sheriffs to seize goods forfeited by attainder, etc.
c. 23 As to taking sheriffs' accounts, Leinster counties.
This session was also traditionally cited as 1 R. 2.
Murgh Obryen subsidised, on condition of withdrawing from Leinster.
1 Ric. 2 (1378)
Ordinances as to a special guard being assigned for Carlow and neighbourhood during the parliament; as to the Justiciary's fees and allowances, etc., he to have a special guard.
3 Ric. 2 (1380)
This session was also traditionally cited as 3 R. 2.
Petitions on behalf of Ireland delivered in the present parliament, together with the answers there made to the same.
4 Ric. 2 (1380)
This session was also traditionally cited as 4 R. 2.
Small new customs to be levied.
Subsidy granted by prelates and clergy.
Statute 40 Edw. 3 c. 14 confirmed.
9 Ric. 2 (1385)
This session was also traditionally cited as 9 R. 2.
Community of the land of Ireland, as to not being molested against liberty.
The Statute of Rhuddlan, also known as the Statutes of Wales or as the Statute of Wales, was a royal ordinance by Edward I of England, which gave the constitutional basis for the government of the Principality of Wales from 1284 until 1536.
The Statute of Westminster of 1275, also known as the Statute of Westminster I, codified the existing law in England, into 51 chapters. Chapter 5 is still in force in the United Kingdom and the Australian state of Victoria whilst part of Chapter 1 remains in force in New Zealand. It was repealed in Ireland in 1983.
The Sheriffs Act 1887 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated for England and Wales enactments relating to sheriffs and repealed from 1275 to 1881 which had ceased to be in force or had become necessary. The act was intended, in particular, to facilitate the preparation of the revised edition of the statutes, then in progress. The act also gave sheriffs the right to arrest those resisting a warrant.
The Statute of Northampton is legislation passed by the Parliament of England which met in Northampton in 1328. The parliament also ratified the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton which ended the First War of Scottish Independence.
The statutes of uncertain date, also known as statuta incerti temporis or Certain Statutes made during the Reigns of K. Henry 3. K. Edward 1. or K. Edward 2. but uncertain when or in which of their times, are English statutes dating from the reigns of Henry III, Edward I or Edward II, and frequently listed in the statute books at the end of the reign of Edward II.
"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".[1])
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