List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland to 1700
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This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland for the years up to 1700.
Click here for the List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1701 to 1800.
The numbers after the titles of the acts are the chapter numbers. Acts are referenced using 'Year of reign', 'Monarch', c., 'Chapter number' — e.g. 16 Charles 2 c. 2 — to define a chapter of the appropriate statute book.
Many of these acts are still, at least nominally, in force, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. As these two countries are legally separate, any amendment to or repeal of a law in one jurisdiction will have no effect on that law in the other. The Oireachtas can perform this function for the Republic, whilst Westminster and the Northern Ireland Assembly do the same for legislation relating to Northern Ireland.
Indeed, in the Republic, many of these laws are expected to be repealed by the 'The Pre-Independence Project'. However, some specific acts are still used on a day-to-day basis and will not be repealed in the immediate term, e.g. Statute of Frauds 1695.
Short titles were not used during the life of the Parliament of Ireland. Individual Acts are identified below using either a description, the Act's long title, or by the short title given to the Act by subsequent legislation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (to 1922) or either the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Oireachtas. Note that the short titles enacted by the latter two are legally valid only within Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland respectively.
- Curtesy Act 1226
- Observance in Ireland of Statute of Merton
- Concerning those born before wedlock
- Inheritance of bastard
- Observance in Ireland of Statute of Rutland
- Observance in Ireland of Statute of Westminster the First and Statute of Gloucester
- Observance in Ireland of Statute of Westminster the Second
- Custom of Ireland as to goods of testator
- Export of silver
- Observance in Ireland of Statute of Winchester
- Confirmation of observance in Ireland of Statutes of Merton, Marlborough, Westminster the First, Westminster the Second, Gloucester
- Observance in Ireland of Statute of Lincoln
- Observance in Ireland of Statute of York
- Forestallers of Fish
- State of the Land of Ireland
- Prohibition of sale of falcons, hawks, etc.
- Observance in Ireland of Statutes of England
- Forcible Entry
- Election of sheriffs: confirmation of rights
- False Imprisonment Act 1410
- c. 9 Ships guarding the sea between Ireland and England to have certain tolls
- c. 1 Warrants and Patents
- c. 14 Foreign enemies spoil and slay merchants, &c., on sea
- c. 2 An Act that none shall purchase Benefices from Rome
- c. 10 Herring Fishery Act 1470
- c. 17 County of Louth Act 1476
- c. 22 Courts Act 1476
- Confirmation of rights: pestilence
- Saint Werburgh's Church Act 1478
- c. 22 Poynings' Act 1495 - also known as "Poynings' Law"
- c. 9 Foreigners fishing off coast to land one-third of the catch in Ireland
- c. 2 Marriage Act 1537
- c. 5 An Act authorising the King, His Heirs and Successors, to be supreme Head of the Church of Ireland
- c. 7 Slander
- c. 18 Administration of Estates Act 1537
- c. 22 Inland Navigation Act 1537
- c. 17 Marriage (No. 2) Act 1537
- c. 24 County of Wexford Act 1536
- c. 32 Borough of Wexford Act 1536
- c. 37 Boyne Weirs Act 1536
- c. 1 Crown of Ireland Act 1542
- Mispleading and Jeoyfailes
- c. 6 Marriage Act 1542
- c. 10 Joint Tenants
- c. 3 An Act touching Mispleading and Jeoyfailes
- c. 2 Settlement of Laois and Offaly
- c. 11 Treason
- c. 14 Regal Power of Queen
- c. 1 An Act restoring to the Crown, the auncient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiasticall and Spirituall, and abolishing all forreine Power repugnant to the same
- c. 2 An Act for the Uniformitie of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and the Administration of the Sacraments
- c. 6 An Act whereby certaine Offences be made Treasons
- c. 1 An Act for the Erection of Free Schooles
- c. 2 An Act that Exemplifications shall be of the same Effect and Strength as the Record or Matter exemplified should be
- c. 1 Perjury Act 1586
- c. 2 Witchcraft Act 1586
- c. 2 Piracy Act 1613
- c. 8 An Act for the avoyding of privie and secret outlawries of His Majestie's subjects in personal actions
- c. 3 An Act for confirming of letters patent hereafter to be past upon his Majesties commission of grace for the remedy of defective titles
- c. 5 Recovery of rents by executors
- c. 1 Statute of Uses 1634
- c. 3 Conveyancing Act 1634
- c. 4 An Act concerning grantees of reversions, to take advantage of breaches of conditions &c.
- c. 6 Trespass Act 1634
- c. 14 An Act for the continuance of actions after the death of any King
- c. 17 An Act that where the plaintiffe is non-suited, the defendant shall recover costs
- c. 2 Explanation of 10 Chas. 1 c. 3
- c. 3 Re plantation
- c. 7 An Act for contentation of debts upon execution
- c. 10 Administration of Estates Act 1634
- c. 13 Forcible Entry Act 1634
- c. 15 Maintenance and Embracery Act 1634
- c. 18 Sheriffs Act 1634
- c. 3 Ecclesiastical Lands Act 1634
- c. 8 An Act to give costs to the defendant, upon a nonsuite of the plaintiffe, or verdict against him
- c. 10 An Act to prevent and punish the abuses in procuring processe and supersedeas of the peace and good behaviour out of his Majesties courts of Chancery and Kings Bench and to prevent abuses in procuring writs of certiorari, &c.
- c. 11 Common Informers Act 1634
- c. 12 Re privilege of Parliament
- c. 35 Cruelty to horses and sheep
- c. 3 Forfeiture Act 1639
- c. 6 An Act for strengthening of letters patent past and to be past, upon any of his Majesties commissions of grace for the remedy of defective titles, etc.
- c. 3 Hostlers and innkeepers
- c. 2 Re plantation
- c. 10 An Act for real union and division of parishes, and concerning churches, free-schools and exchanges
- c. 19 Tenures Abolition Act 1662
- c. 21 An Act for increasing the fee of the seal due to the lord chancellor of Ireland
- c. 2 Re plantation
- c. 6 An Act for the Uniformity of Publique Prayers and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies; and for establishing the Forme of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, in the Church of Ireland
- c. 11 An Act to prevent Delays in extending Statutes, Judgements and Recognizances
- c. 20 An Act for the trial by Nisi Prius of Issues laid in the City of Dublin and County of Dublin
- c. 21 St. Patrick's Cathedral Act 1665
- c. 1 An Act of Recognition, of their Majesties undoubted Right to the Crown of Ireland
- c. 2 An Act for encouragement of Protestant strangers to settle in this kingdom of Ireland
- c. 4 An Act for taking Affidavits in the Country, to be made use of in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer
- c. 2 An Act for taking away the Writ de heretico comburendo
- c. 3 An Act declaring all Attainders and all other Acts made in the late pretended Parliament, to be void
- c. 4 An Act to Restrain foreign Education
- c. 5 An Act for the better securing the government, by disarming papists
- c. 6 Statute of Distribution 1695
- c. 8 Life Estates Act 1695
- c. 9 Profane Oaths Act 1695
- c. 12 Statute of Frauds 1695
- c. 13 Sheriffs Act 1695
- c. 14 An Act declaring which days in the year shall be observed as holy-days
- c. 15 An Act for granting a Supply to his Majesty, by raising Money by a Poll, and otherwise
- c. 17 Sunday Observance Act 1695
- c. 18 Bail in civil actions
- c. 15 An Act for the better suppressing Tories, Robbers, and Rapparees; and for preventing Robberies, Burglaries, and other heinous Crimes
- c. 22 Distress for Rent Act 1695
- c. 1 An Act for banishing all Papists exercising any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and all Regulars of the Popish Clergy out of this Kingdom - known as the "Banishment Act"
- c. 2 An Act for the Confirmation of Articles made at the Surrender of the City of Limerick
- c. 3 An Act to prevent Protestants inter-marrying with Papists
- c. 5 An Act to hinder the Reversal of several Outlawries and Attainders, and to prevent the Return of Subjects of this Kingdom who have gone into the Dominions of the French King in Europe
- c. 8 An Act for granting a supply to his Majesty, by raising money by a poll
- c. 9 An Act to Supply the Defects, and for better Execution of an Act passed this present Session of Parliament, entituled, An act for the better suppressing Tories and Rapparees; and for preventing Robberies, Burglaries, and other heinous Crimes
- c. 10 Costs and prevention of frivolous suits
- c. 11 Clandestine Mortgages Act 1697
- c. 13 Transferring suits from inferior Courts
- c. 16 St. Michan's Parish Act 1697
- c. 6 Glebe Act 1698
- c. 7 Confirming estates under Acts of Settlement
- c. 8 Deer Protection Act 1698
- c. 10 An Act for traversing Inquisitions
- c. 13 An Act to prevent Papists being Solicitors
- c. 14 Arbitration