Pacification, England and Scotland Act 1640

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Pacification, England and Scotland Act 1640
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of England
Long title An Act for the Pacification between England and Scotland.
Citation 16 Cha. 1. c. 17
Territorial extent  England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent 10 August 1641
Commencement 3 November 1640 [a]
Repealed28 July 1863
Other legislation
Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Pacification, England and Scotland Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 17) was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Long Parliament. Its full title was "An Act for the Pacification between England and Scotland".

Contents

The act declared that those who resumed fighting "ought to be punished as breakers of the peace" and that amnesty "shall not...extend to...theeves, robbers, murtherers, broaken-men [and] outlawers". [1]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125).

Notes

  1. ↑ Start of session.

References

  1. ↑ Bohrer, Ziv (2016). "International Criminal Law's Millennium of Forgotten History". Law and History Review. 34 (2): 449–445. ISSN   0738-2480. JSTOR   24771456.
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