Henry VIII enacted the Statute of Uses in 1535 ( which became effective in 1536 ) in an attempt to outlaw this practice and recover lost revenue.

For a history of equity in England, including the Statute of Uses 1535:

His lectures were on the Statute of Uses, and his reputation was such that when he retired to his house after an outbreak of the plague, " nine Benchers, forty barristers, and others of the Inn accompanied him a considerable distance on his journey ".

His next famous case was Chudleigh's Case, a dispute over the interpretation of the Statute of Uses, while his third was Slade's Case, a dispute between the Common Pleas and King's Bench over assumpsit now regarded as a classic example of the friction between the two courts and the forward movement of contract law ; Coke's argument in the case formed the first definition of consideration.

The use of trusts and uses became common during the 16th century, although the Statute of Uses " a severe blow to these forms of conveyancing " and made the law in this area far more complex.

In England, the Statute of Uses ( 1536 ) and the Statute of Wills ( 1540 ) and the consequent rise of flexible future interests made the rule a significant judicial tool in defeating the intent of landowners in grants and devises.

To put an end to this King Henry in 1536 passed the Statute of Uses.

Since the law of England including the Statute of Uses was the law of America the question arose whether a land trust would be valid.

Angry with the actions of commissioners, the protesters / rioters demanded the end of the collection of a subsidy, the end of the Ten Articles, an end to the dissolution, an end to taxes in peacetime, a purge of heretics in government, and the repeal of the Statute of Uses.

The northern gentry had concerns over the new Statute of Uses.

* The Statute of Uses was negated by a new law, the Statute of Wills.

On the passing of the Statute of Uses lands again became non-devisable, with a saving in the statute for the validity of wills made before 1 May 1536.

Before the Charities Act 2006 the definition of charity arose from a list of charitable purposes in the Charitable Uses Act 1601 ( also known as the Statute of Elizabeth ), which had been interpreted and expanded into a considerable body of case law.

Other changes came after the Statute of Uses, 1535 and the Statute of Frauds.

The Statute of Uses ( 27 Hen 8 c 10 ) was an Act of the Parliament of England that restricted the application of uses in English property law.

It is from these bills that the Statute of Uses and the succeeding Statute of Enrolments came.

Parliament eventually accepted the second idea, and the bill was passed in April 1536 as the Statute of Uses ( 27 Hen. 8 c. 10 ).

As a result, it was unaffected by the Statute of Uses, which banned all other methods.

Both Francis Bacon and Edward Coke gave readings on it, while William Holdsworth called it " perhaps the most important addition that the legislature has ever made to our private law ", with Eric Ives writing that " the importance of the Statute of Uses is beyond doubt.

A legal jointure was first authorized by the Statute of Uses.

These three regions had voted on and approved a Statute of Autonomy in the past.

Irving pleaded guilty to the charge of " trivialising, grossly playing down and denying the Holocaust " and was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment in accordance with the law prohibiting National Socialist activities ( officially Verbotsgesetz, " Prohibition Statute ").

During his time as an MP he wrote and campaigned for the Statute of Monopolies, which substantially restricted the ability of the monarch to grant patents, and authored and was instrumental in the passage of the Petition of Right, a document considered one of the three crucial constitutional documents of England, along with the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689.

Edward I of England's Statute of Jewry prescribed " the form of two Tables joined, of yellow felt of the length of six inches and of the breadth of three inches ".

These three elements may exist separately or be combined, the first element being the title may be held in moieties and may not be subdivided, this is prohibited by the Statute of preventing subinfeudation whereas the second and third elements can be subdivided.

The three elements may exist separately or be combined, the first element being the title may be held in moieties and may not be subdivided, this is prohibited by the Statute of Quia Emptores preventing subinfeudation whereas the second and third elements can be subdivided.

The Statute of Frauds required, inter alia, that all devises should be in writing, signed by the testator or by some person for him in his presence and by his direction, and should also be subscribed by three or four credible witnesses.

Thailand and the other three riparians ( led by Vietnam, the most powerful of the remaining three state ) were locked in disagreement over whether Cambodia should be readmitted under the terms of the 1957 Statute ( and more importantly, the 1975 Joint Declaration ), with Thailand preferring to negotiate an entirely new framework to allow its planned Kong-Chi-Moon Project ( and others ) to proceed without a Vietnamese veto.

Academic assessment of the Statute was initially disparaging, with some saying that it added at most " three words to a conveyance ", but it was understood to be important by lawyers of the time and in the modern era.

The Statute for Religious Freedom is one of only three accomplishments Jefferson instructed be put in his epitaph.

The Statute of Westminster created the first Commonwealth realms in 1931 by granting full, or nearly full, legislative independence to several colonies which had already become autonomous Dominions in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

The Commissioners reported back to Whitehall in 1792, stating that " The laws and ordinances that were enacted during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries appear by the Manks Statute Book to have been prescribed by such different powers, or combination of powers, that as precedents of the exercise of legislative authority they can have but little weight.

The Statute of Monopolies dominated patent law for centuries ; the patent law of Australia is dominated by the Patents Act 1990, which states that one test for if something is patentable is if it is in " a manner of manufacture within the meaning of section 6 of the Statute of Monopolies ".

* The massive Statute Law Revision Act 2007 in the Republic of Ireland, through which 3, 225 Acts were repealed, dating back over eight centuries to 1171 and the earliest laws enacted by England when it began its invasion of Ireland.

Magical laws have been enacted over the centuries, designed to keep the existence of the Magical World hidden from Muggles, the first and most important being the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of 1692.

The Statute of Anne was the first real copyright act, and gave the publishers rights for a fixed period, after which the copyright expired.

Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government, the passage in 1942 of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 ( see Statute of Westminster ) and the Australia Act 1986, whereafter the governor became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Australian sovereign.

This bill, which after substantial amendments was granted Royal Assent on 5 April 1710, became known as the Statute of Anne due to its passage during the reign of Queen Anne.

In the Statute of Westminster the United Kingdom granted independence to Canada, New Zealand, Newfoundland, the Irish Free State, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Union of South Africa after the British parliament declared itself as incapable of passing laws over them without their consent.

) Jefferson supported efforts to disestablish the Church of England, called the Anglican Church in Virginia after the Revolution, and authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

" However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom ( that is, the monarch in his British council ) until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government and the passage in 1931 of the Statute of Westminster, the governor general became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Canadian sovereign ( the monarch in his Canadian council ).

As a result, the English language experienced a strong revival ; in 1362, a Statute of Pleading ordered the English language to be used in law courts, and the year after, Parliament was for the first time opened in English.

Allende assumed the presidency on 3 November 1970 after signing a Statute of Constitutional Guarantees proposed by the Christian Democrats in return for their support in Congress.

" Nonetheless, the concept of the Canadian Royal Family did not emerge until after the passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, when Canadian officials only began to overtly consider putting the principles of Canada's new status as an independent kingdom into effect.

Two years later, after the approval of the Catalan Statute, the University Council agreed to recourse to the Generalitat de Catalunya.

The Nuremberg trials marked a crucial moment in legal history, and after that, some treaties that led to the drafting of the Rome Statute were signed.

; 1290: Jews are expelled from England by Edward I after the banning of usury in the 1275 Statute of Jewry.

In the republic, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 repealed the Act almost 85 years after Constitution of the Irish Free State replaced it as the basic constitutional law.

The Statute came into force on 1 July 2002 after the 60th state had ratified it.

His efforts to secure an effective authority over his Irish lands were only moderately successful ; and after holding a parliament at Kilkenny, which passed the celebrated Statute of Kilkenny in 1366, he dropped the task in disgust and returned to England.

After this, the powers given to the autonomous Catalan government according to the Spanish Constitution of 1978 were transferred and the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia ( Estatut d ' Autonomia ) was passed after being approved both by referendum in Catalonia and by the Spanish Cortes Generales.

The book was also criticized by some Valencian nationalists as well, who considered that Fuster took the Catalan nationalist model without adjusting it to the reality of what soon after ( 1982 ) became the present Valencian Community with the passing of the Valencian Statute of Autonomy.

The practice was continued until the Statute of Monopolies was enacted in 1623, ending most monopolies, with certain exceptions, such as patents ; after 1623, grants of Letters patent to publishers became common.

The new parliament was able to change the laws in both countries and an important early piece of legislation was the Copyright Act of 1709, also known as the Statute of Anne, after Queen Anne.

Fraser's Government had proposed to adopt the Statute of Westminster 1931 in its Speech from the Throne in 1944 ( two years after Australia adopted the Act ), in order to gain greater constitutional independence.

Kogălniceanu read in Parliament the monarch's decision to dissolve it, after which Cuza introduced a new constitution, titled Statutul dezvoltător al Convenţiei de la Paris (" Statute Expanding the Paris Convention ").