Continuance of Laws Act 1694

Continuance of Laws Act 1694X1

1694 CHAPTER 14 6 and 7 Will and Mar

An Act for continuing several Laws therein mentioned

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X1 Abbreviated title derived from Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1972)

W. & M. c. 9. made perpetual.

4 & 5 W. & M. c. 24; 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 24. § 13..

Whereas divers temporary laws which by experience have been found beneficial and useful are neare expireing therefore for continuing the same bee it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Co[m]mons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same That the Act made in the Third yeare of the reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act to take away. Clergy from some offenders and to bring others to punishment which by [X2 an] Act made in the Fourth and Fifth yeares of the X3 said King and Queen intituled An Act for reviving continuing and explaining several Laws therein mentioned which are expired and neare expireing was explained & was to continue and bee in force for Three yeares from the Thirteenth day of February One thousand six hundred ninety two and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament and noe longer [X4 together with the explanation thereof in the said Act made in the said Fourth and Fifth yeares] shall bee and the same is and are hereby continued and shall bee in force and bee made perpetual.

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X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: another O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X4 annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.

II. 3 & 4 (3) W. & M. c. 14. made perpetual.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That an Act made in the Third and Fourth yeares of the reigne of the said King and Queen intituled An Act for relief of Creditors against fraudulent devises which was to continue and bee in force for Three yeares and to the end of the next Session of Parliament after the expiration of the said Three yeares and noe longer shall bee and is hereby continued and shall bee in force and to bee made perpetual.

III. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 20. continued for One Year.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That an Act made in the Fourth and Fifth yeares of the said King and Queen intituled An Act for the better discovery of Judgments in the Courts of Kings-Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer att Westm[m] which was to continue and bee in force for one yeare and from the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety and three and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliam[en]t and noe longer shall bee and is hereby continued and shall bee in force for the space of one yeare more and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament & noe longer.