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CONSOLIDATION ACTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 979 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONSOLIDATION ACTS . To " consolidate " (See also:

Lat. consolidare, from See also:con-, together, and solidus, See also:firm) is to See also:press compactly together, put on a firm basis, and especially bring together into one strong whole. The practice of legislating for small portions of a subject only at a See also:time, which is characteristic of the See also:English See also:parliament, produces as a necessary consequence See also:great confusion in the See also:statute See also:law. The acts See also:relating to any subject of importance or difficulty will be found to be scattered over many years, and through the operation of clauses partially repealing or amending former acts, the final sense of the legislature becomes enveloped in unintelligible or contradictory expressions. Where opportunity offers, the law thus expressed in many statutes is sometimes recast in a single statute, called a Consolidation See also:Act. Among such are acts dealing with the customs, stamps and See also:stamp duties, public See also:health, weights and See also:measures, sheriffs, coroners, See also:county courts, See also:housing, municipal corporations, See also:libraries, trustees, See also:copyhold, diseases of animals, See also:merchant See also:shipping, friendly See also:societies, &c. These observations apply to the public See also:general acts of the legislature. On the other See also:hand, in settling private acts, such as those relating to railway and See also:canal enterprise, the legislature always inserted certain clauses founded on reasons of public policy applicable to the business in question. To avoid the See also:necessity of constantly re-enacting the same principles in private acts, their See also:common clauses were embodied in See also:separate statutes, and their provisions are ordered to be incorporated in any private act of the description mentioned therein. Such are the Lands Clauses Acts, the Companies Clauses Acts and the See also:Railways Clauses Acts.

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