In England a number of statutes on the subject have been passed, the chief being the Bastardy Act of the Parliament of 1845, and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Acts of 1872 and 1873.

In the 1945-46 session alone, pensions and other benefits were substantially increased, and from 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone.

The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, abolishing the Irish Parliament and giving Ireland representation at Westminster.

Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts in 1770.

In May 1686, James decided to obtain from the English courts of the common law a ruling which affirmed his power to dispense with Acts of Parliament.

The Acts of Union between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed by both parliaments in 1707, which dissolved them in order to form a Kingdom of Great Britain governed by a unified Parliament of Great Britain according to the Treaty of Union.

There had been three attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689 to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that the idea had the will of both political establishments behind them, albeit for rather different reasons.

The Belgian Anti-Racism Law, in full, the Law of 30 July 1981 on the Punishment of Certain Acts inspired by Racism or Xenophobia, is a law against hate speech and discrimination passed by the Federal Parliament of Belgium in 1981 which made certain acts motivated by racism or xenophobia illegal.

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There are three sources of Law: Acts of Parliament called Statutes, Statutory Regulations ( made by a Secretary of State under an Act of Parliament ) and Case Law ( developed by various Courts ).

Queen Elizabeth promoted the Trade and Navigation Acts in Parliament and issued orders to her navy for the protection and promotion of English shipping.

Under the terms of the marriage treaty, Philip was to be styled " King of England ", all official documents ( including Acts of Parliament ) were to be dated with both their names, and Parliament was to be called under the joint authority of the couple, for Mary's lifetime only.

He has no statutory duties as Prime Minister, his name occurs in no Acts of Parliament, and though holding the most important place in the constitutional hierarchy, he has no place which is recognised by the laws of his country.

The President of the Republic shall promulgate Acts of Parliament within fifteen days following the final adoption of an Act and its transmission to the Government.

There are three quarantine Acts of Parliament in Canada: Quarantine Act ( humans ) and Health of Animals Act ( animals ) and Plant Protection Act ( vegetations ).

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The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).

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Following the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament in 1774, Jefferson wrote a set of resolutions against the acts.

The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

See the United Nations website for full text on " Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation ".

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.

The Acts of Union of 1707 united Scotland with England into a new sovereign state called Great Britain, after 1801 known as the United Kingdom.

In rare cases, the Security Council can adopt resolutions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, related to " threats to Peace, Breaches of the Peace and Acts of Aggression ," which are legally binding under international law, and can be followed up with economic sanctions, military action, and similar uses of force through the auspices of the United Nations.

* 1948 – National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom

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The Factory Acts ( first one in 1802, then 1833 ) and the 1832 Master and Servant Act were the first laws regulating labour relations in the United Kingdom.

* In the United States, in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing “ false, scandalous, or malicious writing ” against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act.

Known collectively as " Artists United Against the U. S. Orphan Works Acts ", the diverse organizations joined forces to oppose the bills, which the groups believe " permits, and even encourages, wide-scale infringements while depriving creators of protections currently available under the Copyright Act.

In the 19th century, the term " petroleum " was frequently used to refer to mineral oils produced by distillation from mined organic solids such as cannel coal ( and later oil shale ), and refined oils produced from them ; in the United Kingdom, storage ( and later transport ) of these oils were regulated by a series of Petroleum Acts, from the Petroleum Act 1862 c. 66 onward.

A major subset of statutory torts, it is also called ' anti-trust ' law, especially in the United States, articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as well as the Clayton and Sherman Acts in the U. S., which create duties for undertakings, corporations and businesses not to distort competition in the marketplace.

For that reason, the quartering of troops was cited as a grievance in the United States Declaration of Independence: < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: ... For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.

* July 5 – The National Health Service Acts are enacted in United Kingdom.

* August 29 – The British Parliament enacts the Factory Acts limiting child labour ( see also History of the United Kingdom ).

* July – Robert Peel ensures the passage of five Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom, effectively abolishing the death penalty for over one hundred offences ; in particular, the Judgement of Death Act allows judges to commute sentences for capital offences other than murder or treason to imprisonment or transportation.

* July 14 – The Alien and Sedition Acts become United States law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

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In the United Kingdom, those Acts that were passed by the British Parliament remain under their original names.

The fifteen BNA Acts enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament do not have official French-language versions.