List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland to 1700

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This is an "incomplete" list of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland for the years up to 1700.

Click here for the List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1701 to 1800.

The numbers after the titles of the acts are the chapter numbers. Acts are referenced using 'Year of reign', 'Monarch', c., 'Chapter number' — e.g. 16 Charles 2 c. 2 — to define a chapter of the appropriate statute book.

Many of these acts are still, at least nominally, in force, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. As these two countries are legally separate, any amendment to or repeal of a law in one jurisdiction will have no effect on that law in the other. The Oireachtas can perform this function for the Republic, whilst Westminster and the Northern Ireland Assembly do the same for legislation relating to Northern Ireland.

Indeed, in the Republic, many of these laws are expected to be repealed by the 'The Pre-Independence Project'. However, some specific acts are still used on a day-to-day basis and will not be repealed in the immediate term, e.g. Statute of Frauds 1695.

Short titles were not used during the life of the Parliament of Ireland. Individual Acts are identified below using either a description, the Act's long title, or by the short title given to the Act by subsequent legislation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (to 1922) or either the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Oireachtas. Note that the short titles enacted by the latter two are legally valid only within Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland respectively.

13th century

1 Hen. 3 (1216)

*Great Charter of Ireland 1216

11 Hen. 3 (1226)

*Curtesy Act 1226

20 Hen. 3 (1236)

*Observance in Ireland of Statute of Merton

21 Hen. 3 (1237)

*Concerning those born before wedlock

22 Hen. 3 (1238)

*Inheritance of bastard

12 Edw. 1 (1284)

*Observance in Ireland of Statute of Rutland

13 Edw. 1 (1285)

*Observance in Ireland of Statute of Westminster the First and Statute of Gloucester
*Observance in Ireland of Statute of Westminster the Second

20 Edw. 1 (1292)

*City of Limerick Act 1292

21 Edw. 1 (1293)

*Sheriffs Act 1293

28 Edw. 1 (1300)

*Custom of Ireland as to goods of testator
*Export of silver

14th century

1 Edw. 2 (1307)

*Observance in Ireland of Statute of Winchester

13 Edw. 2 (1320)

*Confirmation of observance in Ireland of Statutes of Merton, Marlborough, Westminster the First, Westminster the Second, Gloucester

17 Edw. 2 (1324)

*Observance in Ireland of Statute of Lincoln
*Observance in Ireland of Statute of York

29 Edw. 3 (1355)

*Forestallers of Fish

31 Edw. 3 (1357)

*State of the Land of Ireland

40 Edw. 3 (1366)

*Statute of Kilkenny

13 Ric. 2 (1389)

*Prohibition of sale of falcons, hawks, etc.

15 Ric. 2 (1391)

*Observance in Ireland of Statutes of England

15th century

3 Hen. 4 (1402)

*Forcible Entry

11 Hen. 4 (1410)

*Election of sheriffs: confirmation of rights
*False Imprisonment Act 1410

7 Hen. 6 (1428)

*c. 8 Indictments and Pleadings Act 1428

16 Hen. 6 (1437)

*Treatment of Foreign Merchants Act 1437

33 Hen. 6

*c. 9 Ships guarding the sea between Ireland and England to have certain tolls

37 Hen. 6 (1459)

*c. 1 Warrants and Patents

38 Hen. 6

*c. 14 Foreign enemies spoil and slay merchants, &c., on sea

3 Edw. 4 (1463)

*c. 9 Town of Dungarvan Act 1463
*c. 21 Town of Youghal Act 1463

5 Edw. 4 (1465)

*City of Cork Act 1465

7 Edw. 4 (1467)

*c. 2 "An Act that none shall purchase Benefices from Rome"

7 & 8 Edw. 4 (1467)

*c. 58 Borough of Drogheda Act 1467
*c. 64 Borough of Drogheda (No. 2) Act 1467

10 Edw. 4 (1470)

*c. 10 Herring Fishery Act 1470

11 & 12 Edw. 4 (1471)

*c. 80 Parliamentary Privilege Act 1471

15 & 16 Edw. 4 (1475)

*c. 8 Taking of Pledges Act 1475

16 & 17 Edw. 4 (1476)

*c. 17 County of Louth Act 1476
*c. 22 Courts Act 1476

18 Edw. 4 (1478)

*Confirmation of rights: pestilence
*Saint Werburgh's Church Act 1478

18 Edw. 4 Sess. 1 (1478)

*c. 8 Bog of Allen Act 1478

21 Edw. 4 (1481)

*Christ Church Lands Act 1481

21 & 22 Edw. 4 (1481)

*Christ Church Grants Act 1481
*Town of Ardee Act 1481

1 & 2 Hen. 7 (1486)

*c. 4 City of Dublin Act 1486
*c. 5 Borough of Drogheda Act 1486

9 Hen. 7 (1493)

*Distress etc. Act 1493

10 Hen. 7 (1495)

*c. 22 Poynings' Act 1495 - also known as "Poynings' Law" (still in force in UK)

16th century

8 & 9 Hen. 8

*c. 9 Foreigners fishing off coast to land one-third of the catch in Ireland

28 Hen. 8 (1537)

*c. 2 Marriage Act 1537
*c. 5 "An Act authorising the King, His Heirs and Successors, to be supreme Head of the Church of Ireland"
*c. 7 Treason Act (Ireland) 1537
*c. 18 Administration of Estates Act 1537
*c. 22 Inland Navigation Act 1537

28 & 29 Hen. 8

*c. 17 Marriage (No. 2) Act 1537
*c. 24 County of Wexford Act 1536
*c. 32 Borough of Wexford Act 1536
*c. 37 Boyne Weirs Act 1536

33 Hen. 8 (1542)

*c. 1 Crown of Ireland Act 1542 (still in force in UK)
*Mispleading and Jeoyfailes
*c. 6 Marriage Act 1542
*c. 10 Joint Tenants

33 Hen. 8 Sess. 2 (1542)

* c. 3 "An Act touching Mispleading and Jeoyfailes"

34 Hen. 8 (1543)

*c. 1 Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543

3 & 4 Phil. & Mar. (1556)

*c. 2 Settlement of Laois and Offaly
*c. 11 Treason
*c. 14 Regal Power of Queen

2 Eliz. (1560)

*c. 1 "An Act restoring to the Crown, the auncient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiasticall and Spirituall, and abolishing all forreine Power repugnant to the same" (still in force in UK)
*c. 2 "An Act for the Uniformitie of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and the Administration of the Sacraments"
*c. 6 "An Act whereby certaine Offences be made Treasons"

12 Eliz. (1570)

*c. 1 "An Act for the Erection of Free Schooles"
*c. 2 "An Act that Exemplifications shall be of the same Effect and Strength as the Record or Matter exemplified should be"

28 Eliz. (1586)

*c. 1 Perjury Act 1586
*c. 2 Witchcraft Act 1586

17th century

1610-1619

11, 12 & 13 Jas. 1 (1613-15)

*c. 2 Piracy Act 1613
*c. 8 "An Act for the avoyding of privie and secret outlawries of His Majestie's subjects in personal actions"

1630-1639

10 Chas. 1 (1634)

*c. 3 "An Act for confirming of letters patent hereafter to be past upon his Majesties commission of grace for the remedy of defective titles"
*c. 5 Recovery of rents by executors

10 Chas. 1 Sess. 2 (1634)

*c. 1 Statute of Uses 1634
*c. 3 Conveyancing Act 1634
*c. 4 "An Act concerning grantees of reversions, to take advantage of breaches of conditions &c."
*c. 6 Trespass Act 1634
*c. 14 "An Act for the continuance of actions after the death of any King"
*c. 17 "An Act that where the plaintiffe is non-suited, the defendant shall recover costs"

10 Chas. 1 Sess. 3 (1634)

*c. 2 "Explanation of 10 Chas. 1 c. 3"
*c. 3 "Re plantation"
*c. 7 "An Act for contentation of debts upon execution"
*c. 10 Administration of Estates Act 1634
*c. 13 Forcible Entry Act 1634
*c. 15 Maintenance and Embracery Act 1634
*c. 18 Sheriffs Act 1634

10 & 11 Chas. 1 (1634-35)

*c. 3 Ecclesiastical Lands Act 1634
*c. 8 "An Act to give costs to the defendant, upon a nonsuite of the plaintiffe, or verdict against him"
*c. 10 "An Act to prevent and punish the abuses in procuring processe and supersedeas of the peace and good behaviour out of his Majesties courts of Chancery and Kings Bench and to prevent abuses in procuring writs of certiorari, &c."
*c. 11 Common Informers Act 1634
*c. 12 "Re privilege of Parliament"
*c. 35 Cruelty to horses and sheep

15 Chas. 1 Sess. 2 (1639)

*c. 3 Forfeiture Act 1639 (still in force in UK)
*c. 6 "An Act for strengthening of letters patent past and to be past, upon any of his Majesties commissions of grace for the remedy of defective titles, etc."

1660-1669

14 & 15 Chas. 2 (1662)

*c. 3 Hostlers and innkeepers

14 & 15 Chas. 2 Sess. 4 (1662)

*c. 2 "Re plantation"
*c. 10 "An Act for real union and division of parishes, and concerning churches, free-schools and exchanges"
*c. 19 Tenures Abolition Act 1662
*c. 21 "An Act for increasing the fee of the seal due to the lord chancellor of Ireland"

17 & 18 Chas. 2 (1665)

*c. 2 "Re plantation"
*c. 6 "An Act for the Uniformity of Publique Prayers and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies; and for establishing the Forme of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, in the Church of Ireland"
*c. 11 "An Act to prevent Delays in extending Statutes, Judgements and Recognizances"
*c. 20 "An Act for the trial by Nisi Prius of Issues laid in the City of Dublin and County of Dublin"
*c. 21 St. Patrick's Cathedral Act 1665

1690-1700

4 Will. & Mar. (1692)

*c. 1 "An Act of Recognition, of their Majesties undoubted Right to the Crown of Ireland" (still in force in UK)
*c. 2 "An Act for encouragement of Protestant strangers to settle in this kingdom of Ireland"
*c. 4 "An Act for taking Affidavits in the Country, to be made use of in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer"

7 Will. 3 (1695)

*c. 2 "An Act for taking away the Writ de heretico comburendo"
*c. 3 "An Act declaring all Attainders and all other Acts made in the late pretended Parliament, to be void"
*c. 4 "An Act to Restrain foreign Education"
*c. 5 "An Act for the better securing the government, by disarming papists"
*c. 6 Statute of Distribution 1695
*c. 8 Life Estates Act 1695
*c. 9 Profane Oaths Act 1695
*c. 12 Statute of Frauds 1695
*c. 13 Sheriffs Act 1695
*c. 14 "An Act declaring which days in the year shall be observed as holy-days"
*c. 15 "An Act for granting a Supply to his Majesty, by raising Money by a Poll, and otherwise"
*c. 17 Sunday Observance Act 1695
*c. 18 Bail in civil actions
*c. 21 "An Act for the better suppressing Tories, Robbers, and Rapparees; and for preventing Robberies, Burglaries, and other heinous Crimes"
*c. 22 Distress for Rent Act 1695

9 Will. 3 (1697)

*c. 1 "An Act for banishing all Papists exercising any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and all Regulars of the Popish Clergy out of this Kingdom" - known as the "Banishment Act"
*c. 2 "An Act for the Confirmation of Articles made at the Surrender of the City of Limerick"
*c. 3 "An Act to prevent Protestants inter-marrying with Papists"
*c. 5 "An Act to hinder the Reversal of several Outlawries and Attainders, and to prevent the Return of Subjects of this Kingdom who have gone into the Dominions of the French King in Europe"
*c. 8 "An Act for granting a supply to his Majesty, by raising money by a poll"
*c. 9 "An Act to Supply the Defects, and for better Execution of an Act passed this present Session of Parliament, entituled, An act for the better suppressing Tories and Rapparees; and for preventing Robberies, Burglaries, and other heinous Crimes"
*c. 10 Costs and prevention of frivolous suits
*c. 11 Clandestine Mortgages Act 1697
*c. 13 Transferring suits from inferior Courts
*c. 16 St. Michan's Parish Act 1697

10 Will. 3 (1698)

*c. 6 Glebe Act 1698
*c. 7 Confirming estates under Acts of Settlement
*c. 8 Deer Protection Act 1698
*c. 10 "An Act for traversing Inquisitions"
*c. 13 "An Act to prevent Papists being Solicitors"
*c. 14 Arbitration

ee also

*List of Acts of the Oireachtas
*List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament

External links

* [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/front.html Irish statute book]
* [http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/index_en.html Office of the Attorney General (Ireland)]
* [http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/slru/pre_ind_project.html The Pre-Independence Project]
* [http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/slru/slru.html Statute Law Revision (Ireland)]