Talk:List of acts of the Parliament of England

Wrong case
Adding move template because capitalisation is wrong. James500 (talk) 18:38, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Wouldn't it make more sense to set the division between this article and its predecessor at the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, rather than the arbitrary date of 1600? All this would entail is moving the 1601 material to the other article, and changing the article names. john k 18:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Seems sensible to me. Morwen - Talk 17:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Accuracy of older details and general formatting
Please see the talk page at Talk:List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, 1801-1819 for current discussion of possible changes to the lists for both British and English legislation. Silverhelm 09:17, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Cut
I have cut the following with this edit because I am under the impression that these statutes are not Acts of Parliament. See List of English statutes. If there is a source that says that they are considered to be Acts of Parliament, could we please be told what it is.

(9 Hen 3.)

 * Magna Charta - Great Charter
 * Charter of the Forest


 * When discussing the Magna Carta it would help to specify which one you are talking about. The Magna Carta of 1215 (the most famous one) was certainly not an Act of Parliament. The Magna Carta of 1225 I'm not so sure. (I'll do some more digging on this.) Then there is the Magna Carta of 1297. Those are just the famous ones. I think I may have missed one or two (1237, maybe one in the early 1300s). The point is "The Magna Carta" (however you spell it) cannot stand alone in scholarly or encyclopedic writing unless you are intentionally referring to all of them. Zyxwv99 (talk) 13:32, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * "Magna Carta" was listed under 9 Hen 3, so I assume that User:Sfan00 IMG was referring to the one in 1225. Please ignore my edit summary for my post above as I made a mistake. James500 (talk) 13:44, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I thought I was working from the 1225, but on re-reading the source material it seems that the 1297 version was what is actually

being quoted. In respect of the Charter of the Forest, I raised it because there are some later statutes/acts ( no longer in force) that the source I'm using make reference to. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

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Statute of York
We now have two acts calling themselves the Statute of York in Latin or English. That page says 1322 while this page says 1318 or 1323. 23:04, 4 December 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.198.34 (talk)

Jeofail
I just made an edit about this word. Never heard it before but I do like the look of it. Only trouble is I don't know how to say it. Is it "Jofayl" or "Dgeeyofall", "Jeffyl", "Jofull" or some other pronunciation? Can anyone help? It's good word and I think it should be brought back into common use. I prefer the obvious myself (i.e., a joefail is a description of what happened when a man, "Joe", "failed") but the "obvious" is not always what happens in the real world. Jodosma (talk) 20:09, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Years in citations vs year of publication
"Acts passed by the Parliament of England were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be the year before a particular Act was passed."

The first statement may be true, however surprising it may be, but I question the second. Published acts that I have seen all use Lady Day dating, that is, considering that March 25 instead of January 1 is the first day of the year. Acts passed between January 1 and March 24 of any given year are actually the year later according to the modern calendar. Follow this link for an example in a library catalog. http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=141322

Can the truth of these two sentences be confirmed? -- DJ Leslie (talk) 18:41, 2 April 2015 (UTC)


 * The acts are dated to the start of the session. That can lead to the following situations (example years):
 * Act passed in July 1590, but session began in December 1589: Example Act 1589 (so listed the year before it actually passed)
 * Act passed in July 1591, but session began in February 1591 (before Lady Day, so 1590 Old Style): Example Act 1590 (so listed the year before it actually passed)
 * Act passed in July 1592, but session began in May 1592: Example Act 1592 (listed under the year it passed).
 * So the second statement in true, and occurs in the first two cases. Mauls (talk) 15:18, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

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Inn signs
It is very widely reported that in 1393, King Richard II passed an Act making it compulsory for pubs and inns to have a sign (his own emblem the ‘White Hart’ in London) in order to identify them to the official Ale Taster. Does any one know what law this was?Bigwig7 (talk) 12:56, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Mobile
This page is woefully inadequate on mobile. It appears to rely entirely on the navboxes, but they are automatically hidden on mobile. As a result it's not possible to navigate to the various lists without switching to desktop mode. Hairy Dude (talk) 17:26, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

"25 Henry VIII." listed at Redirects for discussion
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