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8), also known as the Statute of Proclamations, [1] was a law enacted by the English Reformation Parliament of Henry VIII. It permitted the King to rule by decree , ordering that "traditional" proclamations (that is, any unable to impose the death penalty or forfeiture of goods) [ clarification needed ] should be obeyed as "though they were ...
[8] [9] [10] Viacom, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works".
The first edition was in nine folio volumes, edited by John Raithby, the first published in 1810 and the last in 1822, containing the statutes from King Henry III's Provisions of Merton (1235—36) to the last year of the reign of Queen Anne (1713).
The Ecclesiastical Appeals Act 1532 (24 Hen. 8. c. 12), also called the Statute in Restraint of Appeals, [3] the Act of Appeals and the Act of Restraints in Appeals, [4] was an Act of the Parliament of England. It was passed in the first week of April 1533. It is considered by many historians to be the key legal foundation of the English ...
To avoid ambiguity, legislatures often include "definitions" sections within a statute, which explicitly define the most important terms used in that statute. [3] But some statutes omit a definitions section entirely, or (more commonly) fail to define a particular term. The plain meaning rule attempts to guide courts faced with litigation that ...
The Statute of Westminster the Third, viz. of Quia Emptores Terrarum in the Printed Copies and Translations. [4] In The Statutes of the Realm it is given the Latin title Statutu[m] d[omi]ni R[egis] de t[er]ris vendend[o] et emend[o] , with a corresponding English title "A Statute of our Lord The King, concerning the Selling and Buying of Land ...
The Pleading in English Act 1362 (36 Edw. 3 Stat. 1.c. 15), [1] often rendered Statute of Pleading, was an Act of the Parliament of England.The Act complained that because the Norman French language was largely unknown to the common people of England, they had no knowledge of what was being said for or against them in the courts, which used Law French.
The Statute of Westminster of 1285, also known as the Statute of Westminster II or the Statute of Westminster the Second, [1] like the Statute of Westminster 1275, is a code in itself, and contains the famous clause De donis conditionalibus, [2] one of the fundamental institutes of the medieval land law of England.