This is a list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1623.

For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland, the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland.

For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

For medieval statutes, etc. that are not considered to be acts of Parliament, see the list of English statutes.

See also the List of ordinances and acts of the Parliament of England, 1642–1660 for ordinances and acts passed by the Long Parliament and other bodies without royal assent, and which were not considered to be valid legislation following the Restoration in 1660.

The number shown after 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 Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3".

Acts passed by the Parliament of England 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 (such as the Short Titles Act 1896).

Acts passed by the Parliament of England were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be the year before a particular act was passed.

21 Jas. 1

The 4th Parliament of King James I (the 'Happy Parliament') which met from 12 February 1624 until 29 May 1624.

This session was traditionally cited as 21 Jac. 1.

Public acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
21 Jas. 1. c. 1
29 May 1624
An Act for the reviving and making perpetual of one act made in the nine and thirtieth year of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, "An Act for erecting of hospitals, and abiding and working houses for the poor."[a]
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
21 Jas. 1. c. 2
29 May 1624
An Act for the general quiet of the subjects against all pretences of concealment whatsoever.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863)
Statute of Monopolies[1][2]
or the Monopoly Act 1623
or the Monopoly Act 1624[3] (repealed)
21 Jas. 1. c. 3
29 May 1624
An Act concerning monopolies and dispensations with penal laws and the forfeitures thereof.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969)
21 Jas. 1. c. 4
29 May 1624
An Act for the case of the subject, concerning informations upon penal statutes.
21 Jas. 1. c. 5
29 May 1624
An Act that sheriffs, their heirs, executors and administrators, having a Quietus est, shall be absolutely discharged of their accounts.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863)
21 Jas. 1. c. 6
29 May 1624
An Act concerning women convicted of small felonies.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863)
21 Jas. 1. c. 7
29 May 1624
An Act for the better repressing of drunkenness, and refraining the inordinate haunting of inns, alehouses, and other victualling houses.
21 Jas. 1. c. 8
29 May 1624
An Act to prevent and punish the abuses in procuring process and Supersedeas of the peace and good behaviour, out of his Majesty's courts at Westminster, and to prevent the abuses in procuring writs of Certiorari out of the said courts, for the removing of indictments found before justices of the peace in their general sessions.
21 Jas. 1. c. 9
29 May 1624
An Act for the free trade and traffick of Welsh clothes, cottons, frines, linings and plains in and through the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863)
21 Jas. 1. c. 10
29 May 1624
An Act of repeal of one branch of the statute made in the session of parliament holden by prorogation at Westminster the twenty-second day of January in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, "An Act for certain ordinances in the King's majesty's dominion and principality of Wales."[b]
21 Jas. 1. c. 11
29 May 1624
21 Jas. 1. c. 12
29 May 1624
An act to enlarge and make perpetual the act made for ease in pleading against troublesome and contentious suits prosecuted against justices of the peace, mayors, constables and certain other his Majesty's officers, for the lawful execution of their office, made in the seventh year of his Majesty's most happy reign.[c]
21 Jas. 1. c. 13
29 May 1624
An Act for the further reformation of jeofails.
21 Jas. 1. c. 14
29 May 1624
An Act to admit the subject to plead the general issue in informations of intrusions brought on behalf of the King's majesty, and retain his possession til trial.
21 Jas. 1. c. 15
29 May 1624
An Act to enable judges and justices of the peace to give restitution of possession in certain cases.
(Repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977)
Limitation Act 1623[5]
or the Statute of Limitations[2] (repealed)
21 Jas. 1. c. 16
29 May 1624
An Act for limitation of actions, and for avoiding of suits in law.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986)
21 Jas. 1. c. 17
29 May 1624
An act against usury.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863)
21 Jas. 1. c. 18
29 May 1624
An Act for continuance of a former act made in the fourth year of the King's majesty's reign of England, &c., intituled, "An Act for the true making woolen clothes, and for some additions and alterations in and to the same."[d]
21 Jas. 1. c. 19
29 May 1624
An Act for the further description of a bankrupt, and relief of creditors against such as shall become bankrupts, and for inflicting corporal punishment upon the bankrupts in some special cases.
21 Jas. 1. c. 20
29 May 1624
An Act to prevent and reform profane swearing and cursing.
21 Jas. 1. c. 21
29 May 1624
An Act concerning Hostlers and Inn-holders.
21 Jas. 1. c. 22
29 May 1624
An Act for the explanation of the statutes made in the third, fourth and fifth years of King Edward the Sixth, concerning the traders of butter and cheese.[e][f]
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863)
21 Jas. 1. c. 23
29 May 1624
An Act for avoiding of vexations delays caused by removing actions and suits out of inferior courts.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
21 Jas. 1. c. 24
29 May 1624
An Act for the relief of creditors against such persons as die in execution.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
21 Jas. 1. c. 25
29 May 1624
An Act for the relief of patentees, tenants and farmers of crown-lands and duchy-lands, or of lands within the survey of the court of wards and liveries, in cases of forfeiture for not payment of their rents, or other service or duty.
21 Jas. 1. c. 26
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 27
29 May 1624
An Act to prevent the destroying and murthering of bastard children.
21 Jas. 1. c. 28
29 May 1624
An Act for continuing and reviving divers statutes, and repeal of divers others.
21 Jas. 1. c. 29
29 May 1624
An Act to enable the most excellent prince Charles to make leases of lands, parcel of his Highness duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
21 Jas. 1. c. 30
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 31
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 32
29 May 1624
An Act for making the river of Thames navigable for barges, boats and lighters, from the village of Bercot, in the county of Oxon, unto the university and city of Oxon.
21 Jas. 1. c. 33
29 May 1624
21 Jas. 1. c. 34
29 May 1624
21 Jas. 1. c. 35
29 May 1624

Private acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
21 Jas. 1. c. 1
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 2
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 3
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 4
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 5
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 6
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 7
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 8
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 9
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 10
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 11
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 12
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 13
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 14
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 15
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 16
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 17
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 18
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 19
29 May 1624
21 Jas. 1. c. 20
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 21
29 May 1624
An Act to enable Vincent Lowe of Denbigh in the County of Derby, Esquire, to sell Part of his Lands for Payment of his Debts
21 Jas. 1. c. 22
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 23
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 24
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 25
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 26
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 27
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 28
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 29
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 30
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 31
29 May 1624
 
Estates of Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and Fisher: explanation of the Act of 1580 [assurance of a rent of £82 10s. to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield].
21 Jas. 1. c. 32
29 May 1624
21 Jas. 1. c. 33
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 34
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 35
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 36
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 37
29 May 1624
 
21 Jas. 1. c. 38
29 May 1624
 

Sources

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Short title assigned by the Statute Law Revision Act 1948
  2. ^ a b c Merkin, Rob (2021). Marine Insurance: A Legal History. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-78811-675-6.
  3. ^ Gardiner, Samuel Rawson. "Charles I". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10: 1885-1900.
  4. ^ a b Belofsky, Nathan (2010). The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities: Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of the Law That Make Us All Unsuspecting Criminals. Penguin. ISBN 9781101188965.
  5. ^ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.

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