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Judiciary Laws

These Acts of Parliament relate to the Judiciary of Great Britain, including legislation concerning to the operation of the courts, the salaries of judges, penalties and pardons, etc. To ease your search for specific topics, keywords in each act are highlighted in red. By simply scanning through the chronological list, you should easily be able to narrow in on desired items. Through the reign of George II, acts are listed by the year in which the Parliamentary session ends ; from George III on they are by date of passage . Local and Personal Acts, and Private Acts are identified by "Cap." numbers in green.

For other related material contained within legislation filed elsewhere, see also: Scottish Laws Social Laws (Crime and Criminality)

The Acts are listed according to the reigns of the British Kings and Queens.
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The Interregnum
(Commonwealth and Protectorate)

• [4th November, p.167-169]. ... For Redress of Delays and Mischiefs Arising by Writs of Error and Writs of false Judgement in several Cases. $165
• [4th November, p.171-173]. ... For Repealing of a Branch of ... An Act for Subscribing the Engagement. $125

Reign of William and Mary
(Later William III)

• [Anno 4, p.243-47]. ... for taking Special Bails ... upon Actions and Suits depending in the Courts of Kings-Bench, Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster. (Lacks title page.) $30

• [Anno $&5, p.431-40]. ... to Prevent Malicious Informations in the Court of Kings-Bench, and for the more easie Reversal of Outlaries in the same Court. $us

• [Anno 5&6, p.235-36]. ... to take away the Process for the Capiatur Fine in the several Courts at Westminster. $30
• [Anno 5&6, p.239-42]. ... to Repeal the Statute ... for finding Sureties, for the Good Abearing, by him or her, that hath a Pardon of Felony. $35

• [Anno 7&8, 703-15]. ... for the Ease of Jurors, and better Regulating of Juries. $40

• [Anno 8&9, p.199-202]. ... to Enable the Returns of Juries, as formerly ... $30

• [Anno 10&11, p.267-68]. ... for Limiting certain times within which Writs of Error shall be brought for the Reversing Fines, Common Recoveries and Ancient Judgements. $30

Reign of Anne

• [Anno 1, p.435-40]. ... for Continuing former Acts for Exporting Leather, and for Ease of Jurors, and for Reviving and Making more Effectual an Act relating to Vagrants. $25

Reign of George II

• [Anno 3, p.519-31]. ... for the better Regulation of Juries. $25
• [Anno 3, p.579-80]. to put an End to certain Disputes touching ... the Court of Chancery. $18

• [Anno 4, p.419-20]. ... to explain and amend an Act ... for the better Regulation of Juries ... of Middlesex. $15

• [Anno 5. p.347-49]. ... further Qualification of Justices of the Peace. $15
• [Anno 5, p.353-55]. ... oblige Justices of the Peace ... to determine appeals ... according to the Merits of the Case, notwithstanding Defects of form in the Original proceedings ... $18
• [Anno 5, p.419-23]. ... making Process in Courts of Equity effectual against Persons who abscond ... or who refuse to appear $20
• [Anno 5, p.443-46]. ... to explain, amend, and render more effectual ... An Act to prevent frivolous and vexatious Arrests. $18

• [Anno 12, p.307-10]. ... for continuing the Act ... to regulate the Price and Assize of Bread; and for continuing, explaining and amending the Act ... for the better regulation of Attornies and Solicitors. $15

• [Anno 24, p.1135-18(i.e.38)]. ... for amending ... an Act ... for the apprehending of Persons in any County or Place, upon Warrants granted by Justices of the Peace of any other County or place. $18

Reign of George III

• [Anno 5, Cap.28]. ... to impower the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon Government Securities, a Sum of Money ..., out of the Common and General Cash in the Bank of England belonging to the Suitors of the said Court; and to apply the Interest ..., towards augmenting the Income of the Masters of the said Court. $20
• [Anno 5, Cap.47]. ... for encreasing the Fund for Payment of the Sums of Money directed ... to be applied in Augmentation of the Salaries of the Puisne Judges in the Court of King's Bench, the Judges in the Court of Common Pleas, the Barons of the Cois in the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, and the Justices of Chester, and the Great Sessions for the Counties of Wales ... and of the Judges in the Courts of Session and Exchequer in Scotland ... $25

• [Anno 12, Cap.21]. ... for giving relief in Proceedings upon Writs of Mandamus for the Admission of Freemen into Corporations; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. $20
• [Anno 12, Cap.30]. ... for the further Augmentation of the Salaries of the Justices of Chester, and the Great Sessions for the Counties of Wales. $15

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 36]. ... to enable Courts of Equity to compel a Transfer of Stocks in Suits ... without making ... the Bank of England, ... Merchants of England trading to the East Indies ... the South Seas or other Parts of American, Party thereto. $18

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 55]. ... Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges in the Courts of Westminster Hall ...(1" piece lacking from margin.) $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 105]. ...for the better regulating the Practice, and for preventing Delays in the Proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster. $15

• [Anno 47, Sess.2, Cap.40]. ... to alter the Practice of Courts of Equity, in Suits in which Members of Parliament are Defendants. $15

• [Anno 54, Cap 84]. ... regulating the time of holding the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions in England. $12

Reign of George IV

• [Anno 3, Cap.10]. ... to enable, in certain Cases, the Opening and Reading of Commissions under which Judges sit upon Circuits, after the Day appointed for holding Assizes. $10

• [Anno 3, Cap.12]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes ...; and to permit such Persons ... as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution or Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors ... although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their Annual Certificates. $15

• [Anno 3, Cap.16]. ... to amend an Act ... for amending the several Acts for the Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors. $10

Reign of William IV

• [Anno 1, Cap.37]. ... to amend an Act ... to facilitate Criminal Trials in Scotland, and to abridge the Period ... between the pronouncing of Setence and Execution ... [of] Capital Punishment. (With accompanying schedule outlining trials and punishments.) $35

Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.32]. ... to enable ... Courts at Westminster to hold Sittings in Banc in Time of Vacation. $8

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.45]. ... to extend the Jurisdiction of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Common Law; to amend Chapter Fifty-six .... for regulating the Admission of Attornies and to provide for the taking of Special Bail in the Absence of Judges. $15

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.86]. ... to diminish Delay and Expense in Advocations and Suspensions in the Court of Session in Scotland. $10

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.100]. ... for continuing ... the Powers given to Judges for altering the Forms of Pleading in the Courts of Common Law at Westminster and elsewhere. $10

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.118]. ... to make certain Alterations in the Duties of the Lords Ordinary, and in the Establishment of Clerks and Officers of the Court of Session and Court of Commissioners for Teinds in Scotland, and to reduce the Fees ... $18
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.119]. ... to regulate the Constitution, Jurisdiction and Forms of Process of Sheriff Courts in Scotland. $18

• [Anno 2&3, Cap.93]. ... for the Establishment of County and District Constables by the Authority of Justices of the Peace. [Dampstains.] $10

• [Anno 3&4, Cap.88]. ... to amend the Act for the Establishment of County and District Constables. $10

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.68]. ... to stay Execution of Judgement for Misdemeanors upon giving Bail in Error. $10
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.75]. ... to amend ... An Act to amend the Law respecting defamatory Words and Libel. $8

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.78]. ... to provide for the Payment of Compensation Allowances to certain Persons connected with the Courts of Law in England, for Loss of Fees and Emoluments. $8
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.80]. ... for regulating the Criminal Jurisdiction of Assistant Barristers as to certain Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in Ireland. $10
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.81]. ... to amend an Act ... for the Regulation of Grand Jury Presentments in the County of Dublin. $12
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.105]. ... for ammending certain Acts ... for facilitating the Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery; for providing for the Discharge of Duties of the Subpoena Office after the Death, Resignation, or Removal of the Patentee of that Office. $8

• [Anno 9&10, Cap.24]. ... for removing some Defects in the Administration of Criminal Justice. $12

• [Anno 13&14, Cap.91]. ... to authorize Justices of any Borough having a separate Gaol to commit Assize Prisoners to such Gaol, and to extend the Jurisdiction of Borough Justices to all Offences and Matters arising within the Borough for which they act. $12

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.15]. ... to amend the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Regulation Act, 1850. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.17]. ... further to explain and amend an Act for the regulation of Process and Practice in the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.21]. ... to amend an Act ... to amend an Act ... for empowering Grand Juries in Ireland to present Bridges, and Tolls to be paid for passing the same ... $10

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.41]. ... to regulate the Salaries of the Chief Justices of the Court of Queen's Bench and ... of the Court of Common Pleas. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.55]. ... to amend the Law relating to the Expenses of Prosecutions, and to make further Provision for the Apprehention and Trial of Offenders in certain Cases. $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.57]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Civil Bills and the Courts of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, and to transfer to the Assistant Barristers certain Jurisdiction as to Insolvent Debtors. (112 p.) $40

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.65]. ... to continue certain temporary Provisions relating to the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland; and also to provide for the due Annexation of an issolated District, formerly of the County of Dublin, to a Barony of the County of Wicklow, for the Purposes of Grand Jury Cess ... $12
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.83]. ... to improve the Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery and in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. $18
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.88]. ...amending the several Acts for the Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.92]. ... to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to certain Offences and other Matters as to which Justices of the Peace exercise Summary Jurisdiction in Ireland. (40 p.) $25
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.93]. ... to consolidate and amend the Acts regulating the Proceedings at Petty Sessions, and the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Quarter Sessions, in Ireland. (54 p.) $25
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.99]. ... to amend the Law of Evidence. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.100]. ... for further improving the Administration of Criminal Justice. $20

• [Anno 17, Cap.16]. ... to amend the Act of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Victoria, Chapter Sixty-one, and the Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Victoria, Chapter Fifty-four. $8
• [Anno 17, Cap.20]. ... to repeal ... [two Acts]; and for making Provision for the Appointment and for Remuneration of a Stipendiary Justice for ... Manchester in ... Lancaster, and of Clerks to such Justice and the Justices for the Borough of Salford ... $18

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.34]. ... to enable the Courts of Law in England, Ireland, and Scotland to issue Process to comple the Attendance of Witnesses out of their Jurisdiction ... $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.35]. ... to repeal certain Provisions of an Act ... concerning the holding of Assizes for the County of Warwick. $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.37]. ... for establishing the Validity of certain Proceedings in Her Majesty's Court of Vice-Admiralty in Mauritius. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.59]. ... to allow Verdicts on Trials by Jury in Civil Causes in Scotland to be returned although the Jury may not be unanimous. $12

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.78]. ... to appoint Persons to administer Oaths, and to substitute Stamps in lieu of Fees, and for other Purposes, in the High Court of Admiralty ... $15
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.82]. ... to improve the Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster. $15

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.100]. ... to make further Provision for the more speedy and efficient Despatch of Business in the High Court of Chancery. $12

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.125]. ... for the further Amendment of the Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and of the Superior Courts of Common Law of the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham. $15

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