Succession to the Crown Act 1603

Succession to the Crown Act 1603

Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	A most joyful and just recognition of the immediate, lawful and undoubted Succession, Descent and Right of the Crown.
Citation	1 Jas. 1. c. 1
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	7 July 1604
Commencement	19 March 1604 [a]
Repealed	30 July 1948
Other legislation
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1948
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Succession to the Crown Act 1603 (1 Jas. 1. c. 1), full title A most joyful and just recognition of the immediate, lawful and undoubted Succession, Descent and Right of the Crown, was an act of the Parliament of England enacted during the reign of James I. The act recited the loyalty of Parliament to James, and stated that the English crown, on the death of Elizabeth I, had come to him "by inherent birthright and lawful and undoubted succession", and acknowledged him as the legitimate king "of England, Scotland, France and Ireland".

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62), having become obsolete in the intervening three centuries.

See also

• Succession to the British throne

Notes

1. Start of session.

References

• Select statutes and other constitutional documents illustrative of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, ed. by G. W. Prothero. Oxford University Press, 1913. Fourth edition.
• Chronological table of the statutes; HMSO, London. 1993.
• Text of the 1603 Act