User:John Cross/legal texts

I especially want to see laws made freely available, if ignorance is no defence then then the law really does need to be easy to find. I live in the UK where laws are only become pubic domain 50 years after they are passed. This page contains links to some of the legal and constitutional documents I have worked on.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom - Acts of the United Kingdom Pariament

I have contributed complete texts for the following Acts of the UK Parliament:

• Accession Declaration Act 1910
• Acts of Parliament (Expiration) Act 1808
• Apportionment Act 1870
• Bills of Exchange (Time of Noting) Act 1917
• Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919
• Clerk of the Council Act 1859
• Copyright Act 1709
• Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925
• Hotel Proprietors Act 1956
• Indian Independence Act 1947
• Ireland Act 1949 (Text uploaded to Commons)
• Japanese Treaty of Peace Act 1951
• Judicial Committee Act 1915
• Libel Act 1792
• Life Peerages Act 1958
• Marshall Aid Commemoration Act 1953
• Meeting of Parliament Act 1870
• Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918
• Parliament Act 1949
• Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711
• Privy Council Registrar Act 1853
• Royal Titles Act 1953
• Septennial Act 1715
• Statutory Companies (Redeemable Stock) Act 1915
• Witnesses Act 1806

I have also created this template: UK-SLD

United Kingdom - Acts of the English Pariament

• Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701
• Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689
• Crown Proceedings Act 1600
• Fines of Labourers, Subsidy Act 1351
• Restraint of Subinfeudation Act 1290
• Unlawful Jurisdictions Act 1584

United Kingdom - Acts of the Scottish Parliament (pre-union)

• Coronation Oath Act 1567
• Papal Jurisdiction Act 1560
• Royal Mines Act 1424
• Sovereignty Act 1606‎

United Kingdom - Acts of the Old Irish Parliament

• Crown Recognition Act (Ireland) 1692

United Kingdom - Legal Cases

I have contributed the following UK legal cases:

• Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
• Re Kingston Cotton Mill Company (No.2) (1896)
• The Trusts of The Arthur Mcdougall Fund Thompson and Others v. Fitzgerald and Another

United Kingdom - Royal Charters

• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

United Kingdom - Other Legal Texts

• The Oath of a Privy Councillor

United Kingdom - Author pages

• Portal:Parliament of England
• Portal:Parliament of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom - Useful links for contributors

• British History online
• British and Irish Legal Information Institute - British and Irish Public Legal Information
• National Archives
• Registry Trust Limited a not for profit company which operates the Registry of Judgments, Orders and Fines for England and Wales on behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
• Records of the Parliament of Scotland
• Statute Law Database from the Department of Justice

International

International - Useful links for contributors

• Spellcheck.net - useful to check spelling

International - Treaties

• Locarno Pact

International - Templates

• League of Nations Template

To do list

To do list - texts

• Austrian State Treaty Act 1955
• Justices Protection Act 1803

• Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act 1915
• Partnerhip Act 1890
• Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation Act 1950
• Treaties of Peace (Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland) Act 1947
• United Parishes (Scotland) Act 1876

To do list - projects

Anglo Saxon Treaties:

• Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum

English Peace Treaties:

• Treaty of Breda (1667)
• Treaty of Durham (1136)
• Treaty of Durham (1139)
• Peace of Etaples
• Treaty of Falaise
• Treaty of Lambeth
• Treaty of London (1359)
• Treaty of London (1604)
• Treaty of Perpetual Peace (1502)
• Treaty of Picquigny
• Treaty of Ripon
• Treaty of Troyes
• Treaty of Utrecht (1474)
• Treaty of Westminster (1674)

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