The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets the basis for the relationship between the Dominions (now called...
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The Statute of Westminster may refer to: Statute of Westminster 1275, often called the Statute of Westminster I, codified existing law in England in 51...
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The Statute of Westminster of 1275 (3 Edw. 1), also known as the Statute of Westminster I, codified the existing law in England, into 51 chapters. Chapter...
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The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 is an act of the Australian Parliament that formally adopted sections 2–6 of the Statute of Westminster 1931...
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Statute of Westminster of 1285, also known as the Statute of Westminster II or the Statute of Westminster the Second, like the Statute of Westminster...
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The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 (Public Act no. 38 of 1947) was a constitutional Act of the New Zealand Parliament that formally accepted...
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The Statute of Westminster 1327, also known as Statute of Westminster IV, was a law of Edward III of England. The law included possibly the earliest recorded...
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The Statute of Westminster 1472 was an Act of Edward IV of England requiring a tax of four bow staves per tun of cargo to be provided by each ship arriving...
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was granted with the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947. The 1907 royal proclamation of Dominion status has...
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named Statute of Westminster Adoption Act: Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, an Act of the Parliament of Australia Statute of Westminster Adoption...
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Commonwealth realm (redirect from Realm of the Commonwealth)
Statute of Westminster 1931 further set the relationship between the realms and the Crown, including a convention that any alteration to the line of succession...
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by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931. In the statute, the British Parliament provided that it would...
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of Nations through the Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference, and formalised by the United Kingdom through the Statute of Westminster in...
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Independence from the United Kingdom (category History of the British Empire)
1788 Australian independence: Constitution of Australia, 1901 Statute of Westminster 1931 Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 Australia Act 1986 Barbadian...
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Quia Emptores (redirect from Statute of Westminster III)
title is A Statute of our Lord The King, concerning the Selling and Buying of Land. It is also cited as the Statute of Westminster III, one of many English...
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basis of independence, established by the Statute of Westminster 1931 which came about mainly at the behest of nationalist elements in South Africa and...
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the time. Its dominion status was confirmed by the Statute of Westminster, 1931, although the statute was not otherwise applicable to Newfoundland. In 1934...
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Canada Act 1982 (redirect from An Act to give effect to a request by the Senate and House of Commons of Canada.)
act also formally ended the "request and consent" provisions of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in relation to Canada, whereby the British parliament had...
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Associated States Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 (effective from 1939) Constitution of the Irish Free State Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947...
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Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 (category History of the Commonwealth of Nations)
the Statute of Westminster in 1947. Newfoundland never adopted the Statute of Westminster. Instead, facing grave financial difficulties as a result of the...
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Dominion (redirect from Dominion of Ireland)
"Dominion status was something between that of a colony and a state". With the adoption of the Statute of Westminster 1931, Britain and the Dominions (except...
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Canada (redirect from Etymology of Canada)
by the Statute of Westminster, 1931, and culminating in the Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United...
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and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster the following year (although Australia and New Zealand did not adopt the statute until 1942 and 1947, respectively)...
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the Statute of Westminster 1931, the Australia Acts 1986, prerogative instruments and judicial interpretations of these laws by the High Court of Australia...
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tutorial Press Limited, p. 238, 1939 "Statute of Westminster, 1931, 22 Geo. V, c. 4, s. 4" (PDF). "Statute of Westminster | United Kingdom [1931]". Encyclopedia...
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enactment of the Statute of Westminster 1931. The statute, an essential transitory step from the British Empire to the Commonwealth of Nations, provided that...
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of Westminster 1931. It declared the Union of South Africa to be a "sovereign independent state" and explicitly adopted the Statute of Westminster into...
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to amend the line of succession to the Canadian throne, the Statute of Westminster stipulates that the agreement of the governments of the fifteen other...
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De donis conditionalibus (redirect from Statute De Donis Conditionalibus 1285)
the Estates Tail Act 1285 is a chapter of the English Statutes of Westminster (1285). It originated the law of entail – forbidding a landholder to sell...
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Patriation (redirect from Night of the Long Knives - 1982)
1982. The process was necessary because, at the time, under the Statute of Westminster, 1931, and with Canada's agreement, the British Parliament retained...
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