Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881

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Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881 [1]
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Long title An Act for promoting the revision of the Statute Law by repealing various enactments chiefly relating to Civil Procedure or matters connected therewith, and for amending in some respects the law relating to Civil Procedure.
Citation 44 & 45 Vict c 59
Dates
Royal assent 27 August 1881
Commencement 27 August 1881 [2]
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1881 (44 & 45 Vict c 59) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Bill for this Act was the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Bill. [3]

Contents

This Act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part XI of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.

Section 2

This section provided that this Act did not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

Section 6

This section was repealed by section 226(1) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925.

The Crown Office Rules 1906 were made under the authority conferred by this section. As to this section and those rules, see R v Amendt. [4]

Schedule

The Schedule was repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1894.

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Footnotes
  1. The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 1 of this Act.
  2. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793
  3. Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Bill. Index to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, in the Second Session of the Twenty-Second Parliament of the United Kingdom. 44° & 45° Victoriae. 1881.
  4. R v Amendt [1915] 2 KB 276 ; (1915) 113 LT 35 ; (1915) 84 LJKB 1259 ; (1914) 30 TLR 543 ; (1915) 31 TLR 287 ; (1914) 78 JP 388 ; (1915) 79 JP 324 . See also The Law Reports, Ten Years' Digest, 1911 to 1920, p dccxiii; and Halsbury's Statutes of England, 1st Ed, Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd, 1930, vol 13: , p 236; Darby, Bosanquet and Marchant, A Practical Treatise on the Statutes of Limitations in England and Ireland, 2nd Ed, 1893, p 538.