The Act 16 Cha. 1. c. 11, sometimes referred to as the Ecclesiastical Causes Act 1640, the Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640, the High Commission...

temporary abolition by the Long Parliament in 1640 when it sat on a regular basis. During this time, the court heard well over a thousand cases, of which...

The Act of Supremacy 1558 (1 Eliz. 1. c. 1), sometimes referred to as the Act of Supremacy 1559, is an Act of the Parliament of England, which replaced...

liberated until the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. Vermont was the first state in America to abolish slavery in 1777. By 1804, the rest of the northern states...

Parliament of King Charles II (the 'Cavalier Parliament') which met from 8 May 1661 until 30 July 1661. Clergy Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 27) Abolition of High Commission...

list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1640. For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great...

Delimitation of Forests Act 1640 (16 Cha. 1. c. 16, also known as Selden's Act) to revert the forest boundaries to the positions they had held at the end of the...

the High Court of Justice by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, after which point the King's Bench was a division within the High Court. The King's...

Paragraph 3 was repealed by section 109(3) of, and Schedule 10 to the Courts Act 2003. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was repealed in its entirety. The repeal...

regime for the recovery of the proceeds of crime. These provisions came into force on 6 April 2008. Section 1 allows the High Court of Justice in England and...

Trade Act of 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that the institution of slavery...

it applied to the Church of England, following the recommendations of the 1954 Archbishops' Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts. Superseding the Ecclesiastical...

the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Abolition Society) in May 1787, the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was passed by...

mold. During the conflicts the the removal of ecclesiastical judges and the abolition of the High Commission meant that the Established Church was unprotected...

as the British freed the slaves as part of the banned trade on the high seas, even before its abolition of slavery in its territories in 1834. There...

that the unrepealed residue of this act was spent because of the abolition of the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge. They...

reports. The courts of England and Wales are headed by the Senior Courts of England and Wales, consisting of the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice...

Reform Act 1832 extended the vote slightly, only those with property had any representation in Parliament. Although the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished...

the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 denied the monarch any power to arrest people for failing to pay taxes. The monarch's continued assertion of the divine right...

the murder of an enslaved person. In 1833, the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act, permanently abolishing the instutiton of slavery in...

a number of religious radicals nearly met the same fate, even though the downfall of the bishops and abolition of the High Commission in 1640–2[non sequitur]...

compensate the crown for the loss of revenues associated with the abolition of the court. On 20 April 1661, three days before his coronation at Westminster...

lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year...

medieval laws to raise money and his use of the prerogative courts of the Star Chamber and High Commission. Charles also attempted to enforce consistent...

it has been called the "Abolition of Parliament Act". The bill which became the Act was brought before the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in early...

The Bill of Rights 1689 (sometimes known as the Bill of Rights 1688) is an Act of the Parliament of England that set out certain basic civil rights and...

Constitutional Reform Act 2005. The Earl Marshal is the only peer to retain a judicial function by right of office, as the sole judge of the High Court of Chivalry...

on this act by section 14 of this act. This short title was conferred on this act by section 34 of, and schedule D to, the County Courts Act 1867 (30...

Court of High Commission came to be the primary means for disciplining Puritan clergy who refused to conform. Unlike regular courts, in the Court of High...

church and the courts, and the Bill of Rights 1689 recorded that the "election of members of Parliament ought to be free". The Act of Union 1707 unified...