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See also:ACT OF See also:PARLIAMENT . An act of parliament may be regarded as a See also:declaration of the legislature, enforcing certain rules159
of conduct, or defining rights and conferring them upon or with-holding them from certain persons or classes of persons. The collective See also:body of such declarations constitutes the statutes of the See also:realm or written See also:law of the See also:British nation, in the widest sense, from Anglo-Saxon times to the See also:present See also:day. It is not, however, till the earlier See also:half of the 13th See also:century that, in a more limited constitutional sense, the See also:statute-See also:book is generally held to open, and the See also:parliamentary records only begin to assume distinct out-lines See also:late in the reign of See also:Edward I. It gradually became a fixed constitutional principle that an act of parliament, to be valid, must See also:express concurrently the will of the entire legislature. It was not, however, till the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VI. that it became customary, as now, to introduce bills into parliament in the See also:form of finished acts; and the enacting clause, regarded by constitutionalists as the first perfect assertion, in words, of popular right, came into See also:general use as late as the reign of See also:Charles II. It is thus expressed in the See also:case of all acts other than those granting See also:money to the See also:crown:—" Be it enacted by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's most excellent See also:Majesty, by and with the See also:advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and See also:Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same." Where the act is a money See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant the enacting clause is prefaced by the words, " Most gracious See also:Sovereign, we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the See also:United See also:Kingdom of See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making See also:good the See also:supply' which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned ; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, &c." The use of the pre-amble with which acts are usually prefaced is thus quaintly set forth by See also:Lord- See also:Coke: " The See also:- REHEARSAL (from " rehearse," to say over again, repeat, recount, O.Fr. rehercer, from re, again, and hercer, to harrow, cf. " hearse," the original meaning being to rake or go over the same ground again as with a harrow)
rehearsal or See also:preamble of the statute is a good meane to find out the meaning of the statute, and, as it were, a See also:key to open the understanding thereof " (Co. Litt. 79a). Originally the collective acts of each session formed but one statute, to which a general See also:title was attached, and for this See also:reason an act of parliament was up to 1892 generally cited as the See also:chapter of a particular statute, e.g. 24 and 25 Vict. C.
101. Titles were, however, prefixed to individual acts as See also:early as 1488. Now, by the See also:Short Titles Act 1892, it is optional to cite most important acts up to that date by their short titles, either individually or collectively. Most See also:modern acts have See also:borne short titles independently of the act of 1892.
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