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  2. Non-importation Act - Wikipedia

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    The following items were banned under the Non-Importation Act of 1806: All articles of which leather, silk, hemp, flax, tin (except in sheets), or brass was the material of chief value; All woolen clothes whose invoice prices shall exceed 5/- sterling per square yard; Woolen hosiery of all kinds; Window, glass and glassware; Silver and plated ...

  3. Partition (law) - Wikipedia

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    A partition is a term used in the law of real property to describe an act, by a court order or otherwise, to divide up a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the owners of property. [1]

  4. Nonconsumption agreements - Wikipedia

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    These agreements later served as the basis for the Non-Importation Act, and subsequent Embargo of 1807 that was passed by the United States Congress [1] in 1806 in an attempt to establish American nautical neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars between France and Britain.

  5. Macon's Bill Number 2 - Wikipedia

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    Macon's Bill Number 2 was the fourth in a series of embargo measures, coming after the Non-Importation Act, the Embargo Act, and the Non-Intercourse Act (1809). Macon neither wrote the bill nor approved it. [2] The law lifted all embargoes with Britain and France for three months.

  6. Restraint on alienation - Wikipedia

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    In New Zealand, Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993/Maori Land Act 1993 puts restrictions on alienation of land owned by a Māori person, or by a group which is predominantly Māori. Sections 146 and 147 of the Act force an owner of Māori land who wishes to alienate their interest in the land to give right of first refusal to people belonging to ...

  7. Embargo Act of 1807 - Wikipedia

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    The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general trade embargo on all foreign nations that was enacted by the United States Congress.As a successor or replacement law for the 1806 Non-importation Act and passed as the Napoleonic Wars continued, it represented an escalation of attempts to persuade Britain to stop any impressment of American sailors and to respect American sovereignty and neutrality but ...

  8. United States declaration of war on the United Kingdom

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    The US created the Embargo Act of 1807 to address British and French interference with US shipping. [16] Officially, the act "closed US ports to all exports and restricted imports from Great Britain." [16] Nonetheless, the act did not work as planned. [16] It was later lifted in 1809 and was replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act. [17]

  9. 1806 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Simeon De Witt. Observations on the Eclipse of 16 June 1806, Made by Simeon De Witt Esq. of Albany, State of New-York, Addressed to Benjamin Rush M. D. to Be by Him Communicated to the American Philosophical Society. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 6, (1809), pp. 300–302; The Massachusetts Election in 1806.