Unlawful Oaths Act

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Unlawful Oaths Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland relating to unlawful oaths.

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The bill for an act with this short title may have been known as an Unlawful Oaths Bill during its passage through Parliament.

Unlawful Oaths Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to the unlawful oaths.

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The Unlawful Oaths Acts 1797 and 1812 [1]

The Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Acts [2]

Unlawful Oaths Acts were also passed in 1839, 1848 and 1875. [6] [7]

Unlawful Oaths Act 1797

Unlawful Oaths Act 1797 [a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of Great Britain
Long title An act for more effectually preventing the administering or taking of unlawful oaths.
Citation 37 Geo. 3. c. 123
Territorial extent  Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent 19 July 1797
Commencement 19 July 1797 [b]
Repealed21 May 1981
Other legislation
Amended by Statute Law Revision Act 1888
Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Unlawful Oaths Act 1797 [a] (37 Geo. 3. c. 123) was an act passed by the British Parliament. The act was passed in the aftermath of the Spithead and Nore mutinies and aimed at clandestine political associations and ad hoc agreements such as those which had bound several of the mutineers. [10] The Act was repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981. [11]

The act was used against the Tolpuddle Martyrs. [12]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

  1. ↑ Harris and Wilshere. Principles and Practice of the Criminal Law. 18th Ed. 1950. p 109. A A Gordon Clark and Alan Garfitt. Roscoe's Criminal Evidence. 16th Ed. Stevens & Sons. 1952. p 812. Devlin. Criminal Courts and Procedure. Butterworths & Co (Publishers) Ltd. 1960. p 71. Archbold Pleading, Evidence & Practice in Criminal Cases. 38th Ed. 1973. paras 374 & 3144. "More Formal Repeals" (1980) 124 Solicitors Journal 888 (19/26 December 1980).
  2. ↑ Craies and Kershaw (eds). A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors. 7th Ed. 1910. vol 1. p 332.
  3. 1 2 Hughes and MacRaild. Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Its Diaspora. Liverpool University Press. 2018. p 152.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Current Law Statutes 1996, vol 4, p 173
  5. 1 2 3 4 Coen (ed). The Offences Against the State Act 1939 at 80. 2021. p 11.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Coercion Acts in Ireland since 1800". The Liberal Leaders Almanac 1887.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Speech Delivered by Michael Davitt in Defence of the Land League. 1890. p 391.
  8. ↑ Paterson (ed). The Practical Statutes of the Session 1862. London. 1862. p vi.
  9. ↑ Conyngham. Ireland Past and Present. 1884. p 170.
  10. ↑ R. A. Melikan, John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751–1838. The Duty of Loyalty (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 125.
  11. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Bill [Lords]". HC Deb vol 4. 6 May 1981. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  12. ↑ Rodney Mace (1999). British Trade Union Posters: An Illustrated History. Sutton Publishing. p. 15. ISBN   0750921587.
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